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January 29, 2012 2 Comments

You’ll Have To Forgive Me

I am finding it impossible to report on our doings at all, and the other day I realized why. I was marking down an appointment towards the end of January in my calendar, and as I looked down at the month of January, I saw that we had been in Albequerque...

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Window Shopping For the Soul

I’ve always had a tough time resisting buying little, cool, one-of-a-kind things that are full of grace and character, and are usually handmade. It is a cheaper shopping habit than most, but it still owns a bit more of the consumer attitude than I’d like to think I’m victim to. It...

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The Country Mystique

For years now, I’ve been wanting to move to the country where neighbors are just out of sight, there is no traffic, and there is open space for the soul! At this point in my travels I’ve had a revelation. I love the idea of growing my own food, but there...

January 14, 2012 2 Comments

Petrified Wood

In Arizona, Ada and I were thrilled to find both Kokopelli and petrified wood. If you don’t have time for the Petrified Forest, don’t worry. The stuff is everywhere and how cool is it that trees from the Triassic Period were preserved all this time by Nature for us to marvel...

December 4, 2011 5 Comments

What It’s All About…

We’re hitting the road again and this time we’ll be crossing the SouthWest with our quarter-dozen children ranging from 7 months to 7 years. The trip is planned out: David has a tour booked all across our route and we know where we need to be each day to stay on...

October 21, 2011 5 Comments

Big Family; Small (motor)Home

We just put up the cloth cradle we’ve intended to use from the beginning. It’s a baby hammock, designed to be baby’s bed, and my wonderful husband hung it over our bed in Benny so that now, it is possible to put Cassidy (6 months) in the hammock, and then (until...

October 11, 2011 2 Comments

Home Again

Well, we’re home now. This house in Clearwater isn’t supposed to be home anymore, but it’s difficult to loose the habit of calling it that. We have an offer on the house, for less than the amount of the mortgage, and we’re waiting to hear from the bank whether they will...

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Give Me Spots on My Apples, but Leave Me the Birds and the Bees…Please!

I tend to let my children go out and adventure without hovering, and moreso with each child. A few weeks ago when her sister was chasing her over the sidewalk, Annabelle had a terrible spill and scraped up her lovely face: nose, lips, and chin all lost the top layer of...

September 11, 2011 1 Comment

Bathrooms On the Road

When I was in India, a roadtrip involved stops at stores on the side of the highway with outdoor bathrooms: concrete stalls with a concrete floor with a drain in the middle, and a faucet (like the one you hook your hose up to on the side of your house) in...

Columbus Ohio

We went to Columbus to see people we love: Zach (and his new bride Bethany) and Michael. We were only there for two days. We sat together in parks, barbecued in Mike’s yard, withstood a power outage, played music in the Short North, and visited Bethany’s family farm. It was short...

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