Along the Battenkill Hill Farm Inn

Mondays are for dreaming: A family-friendly stay at the Hill Farm Inn

I don't know about where you are, but May around these parts is all kinds of crazy. Both my boys are playing Little League baseball and between the practices, games, to say nothing of end-of-year concerts, galas, field trips, and family days, there's …

Statue of mother and children at Taliesin West

A mother and children at Taliesin West

In honor of Mother's Day, which is celebrated in the United States this Sunday, I thought I'd share this picture of a very maternal sculpture from our recent trip to Arizona. While we were there, Matt and I left the boys with his parents for a couple …

Birth of a traveling mom

The birth of a traveling mom

It might seem obvious that I didn't enter this world as a traveling mother, although sometimes even I forget that fact. No, first I was a kid who traveled not too much (except that year in Italy), then an adolescent and young adult who got around a …

Child looking at ship

Mondays are for dreaming: Cruising with kids

If you're a regular reader of my blog, you may have noticed a marked absence of boats in my family's travel agenda. That's partly because Matt doesn't like them (which I don't understand, but since getting on an airplane makes me hyperventilate, who …