Last week Dave, Elle and I lucked out and got to spend a couple days in one of the most beautiful spots I’ve ever visited. Here’s what we did with two days in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. We drove and hiked and rowed and oooooo’d and ahhhhhhh’d at all that beauty. A one-on-one…
I think bridges are amazing. The Golden Gate Bridge is my favorite part of San Francisco (wrote about that back HERE), and how amazingly gothic and gorgeous is the Brooklyn Bridge?? I have always loved that one too. (That picture was taken as we walked across it late one night on our last visit…
She is on a flight coming from her connection in San Francisco en route from Shanghai as I write and I am seriously so dang excited. She has been living in China for nearly five weeks. (For how she made the decision to head on this adventure, click HERE.) I knew this would be…
Growing up my mother nourished us with art (post about that back HERE). Art in music and art in paintings, art in literature, and even things like the art of kindness. My dad helped us drink in nature. With things like “signs of spring” walks and writing poems about the intricacies of the miraculousness of…
Warning: There are a lot of pictures in this post. And a large percentage of them are jellyfish. And part of the story is a little serendipitous (and crazy) which is just what we were looking for on this road trip 😉 Despite the large number of pictures though, included among them are some of…
Letting a teenager go abroad, especially across-the-world-kind-of-abroad, is no small thing. The summer after our kids’ junior year of high school, we send them on what we call international internships. It is an idea inspired by Dave’s brother who did just that with his own children in high school. Max took the lead for our…
These Bear Lake posts are sifted through all the Fall chaos as I can get to them, but I think this is the last one. I’m posting this one from Wisconsin. Missing that lake a lot just about now! I wrote this a while back but haven’t had the chance to post yet. Here you…
my travel addiction travel and getting out of personal ruts Q & A — travel & money our visit to the 2008 beijing olympics: olympics so far here in beijing beijing tid-bits track & field olympics wrap-up our visit to India: India India so far construction day in the colonies medical day in the colonies…
I lucked out in college. During those formative years I was able to somehow surround myself with the best college friendships I could ever ask for. And we got to gather together for a reunion recently. It reminded me how important it is to gather and reconnect. Because these college girlfriends are still teaching me…