Teenage Adventurer Gifts

'I'm trying to get my competence and my confidence in the same place.'

"Look Mommy, hat!"

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

"I still plan to be a cowboy when I grow up. If I'm going to service my share of the national debt, I might as well have fun doing it."

'I don't know what 'peer pressure' is, but it makes a GREAT excuse!'

"Would you like some wings?"

"Can you make me look like Wolverine?"

'So Kyle - have you considered the challenges of van driving?'

'My 'What I Did Over The Weekend' report is about my hunting a 17,000 pound moose, deep inside Canada.Some or all of this report has been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.'

Only a penny! A sensible and ingenious toy for children.

Child driving a toy car

Kids with Fish Balloons

Biggles has a more staid adventure.

'You know they've reached puberty when they're more interested in Dr. Ruth than Babe Ruth.'

Mistaken baby ducks.

'I know he followed you home but you can't keep him.'

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry trip.

"I've always wanted to live on a lake so I can go boating and fishing. Since we don't live on a lake, I thought I'd make my own."

"Why did I start the story with 'Twice upon a time?' Because it's a sequel."

"If nothing else, school has prepared me for a lifetime of backpacking."

'You must all promise never to divulge what you are about to see.'

Childhood

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

"Kids."

Swinging on the Chandelier

The First National Sand Bank.

Local, free-range bug juice.

'It's all right, miss, I'm only loking for our cricket-ball!'

Flava Superba

Somewhere in France - John O'Dowd jests away his junior year abroad

"If you wear these caps backwards, they keep the sun out of your eyes."

"I haven't been in a playpen yet that could hold me."