My family has the privilege of not having to think about race very much. Being white in a racist society affords us the power to ignore that our whiteness informs…
Sam Davies lives in Northside Richmond with his wife and two school-age children. He enjoys writing about being a father in the DadZone. Follow him on Twitter @MrBeefy.
I learned something about myself at a screening of Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation, the latest film offering at the Dome at the Science Museum of Virginia. I learned that…
Who were the people of Pompeii? What was their community like before it was covered in a literal mountaintop of ash?” These are the questions that Pompeii: The Immortal City,…
For a long period in my life, I forgot how to play pretend. As a child, I’d spend hours on the floor of my bedroom constructing narratives: superhero mashups between…
When my older daughter was eight, my wife Kat and I prepared to take her to her first sleep-away camp. It was the summer after third grade and she was…
“Wow, I really don't know how sails work,” I said to myself at the Land Yacht table at the Science Museum of Virginia’s new exhibit, Going Places. My two daughters,…
The foundation of modern biology is that life evolves over time through natural selection. Evidence confirming this scientific principle is on glorious display at Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out, an…
My family is going to the beach this summer. I’m writing it here so it absolutely, definitely happens … maybe. Sharing it here increases the likelihood that we will go to…
After a morning of playing video games in our introvert cave, my family of four braved a trip in the Sunday afternoon rain to Virginia Rep’s Children's Theater at Willow…
It seems every day now, the news brings word of another man accused of using his power to abuse and harass women. Women you know (or you yourself) have probably…
