Getting Uncomfortable For Love: A Christmas Lesson

December 16, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Image credit   The house is quiet for 9:30 in the morning. The only sounds are the North Atlantic wind whipping around the square corners of our cottage, the loud […]

On Christmas: A Reflection On The Real Gifts

December 1, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

“Oh Mom, I’m so excited, we get to have a REAL Christmas tree this year!” Ezra gushed as he bounced through the craft store beside me. “That doesn’t happen all […]

A Home For The Holidays

November 29, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Cape Cod is beautiful this time of year. True, the ocean is too cold to swim and the skies mirror the sea in shades of Atlantic grey, but there are […]

Goals: Past, Present & Future

November 1, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States

Dawn broke grey over our cottage on Cape Cod this morning. We’ve been here just four days, long enough to unpack and for the children to each choose an “office” […]

The Grand Canyon: Erosion As It Relates To Life

October 12, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

The Grand Canyon is one of those places that neither words or photographs can capture. It’s a big hole in the ground, but it’s so much more than that. It […]

Good Life Farms: Lambs, Lettuce & Love

September 7, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

A crisp fall breeze blew stiffly across the fields at Good Life Farms and the air smelled distinctly of fall. Gabe tumbled out of the van first, and into the […]

The Best of Hershey’s & Jeremiah’s Dream!

August 31, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

There is a train whistle sounding and the distant rumble of the rails in front of which the crickets are fiddling in the twilight. Children somewhere two streets over are […]

The Calm Before The Storm: Awaiting the trip & Irene

August 26, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

The blue skies above New England are dazzling. Puffy white clouds dot the sky. A light breeze blows. The calm before the storm, in more ways than one. As the […]

This is the day…

August 25, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States

This is the day that you don’t want to be me. This is the day that my life of continual adventure and international travel is not sexy. This is the […]

Mama Bus Math

August 22, 2011 in North America, Travelogue, United States

This is a post that my friend Lois wrote for The Mama Bus about our upcoming cross-continental drive. We leave in just nine days, she and I and our 11 […]