I've been rereading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert these past few weeks (a book I love dearly) and it has me dreaming today about the one place in the book Gilbert visits where I haven't been: Bali, Indonesia.Although this tourist island got …
Dinos at the Delaware Museum of Natural History
September 28, 2008 3 reader comments
I'm going to open this post by being brutally honest. I think it is quite possible that the Delaware Museum of Natural History is the most boring museum in the world. It is not without a few charms, exceptions that prove the rule. There is the …
Big dino, little dino
September 25, 2008 4 reader comments
Little Dino and his cousin Lindsay are in front of the famous T-rex named Sue that stands in the iconic atrium of the Field Museum in Chicago. I don't know if I've mentioned Teddy's passion for dinosaurs here previously, but it is second only to his …
Mondays are for dreaming: New York City
September 22, 2008 9 reader comments
This week's dreaming post has me a little closer to home. Less than three hours away in fact. But sometimes it's those close-to-home places that get ignored, or if not ignored put off until some other time, "when it's convenient" (like after the kids …
Lions, bears, and purple tigers at the Philadelphia Zoo
September 21, 2008 2 reader comments
This Friday I was feeling decidedly low energy and unimaginative. Suddenly the huge Amish farmer's market I had been planning to visit seemed too overwhelming and fraught with the potential for boredom and failure. I didn't feel like going for a hike …
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