There are two food-related items that are important to me when I'm traveling with my children. One is that they always have some exposure to local traditions and food. The other is that they get some experience eating at restaurants that do not have …
Mondays are for dreaming: Looking up in Oxford
August 30, 2010 3 reader comments
I don't usually share posts that are primarily photos (since I don't really consider myself a photographer) but sometimes the perfect words elude me, especially when it comes to a place as gorgeous and magical as Oxford. Looking at these pictures, it …
Mondays are for dreaming: Endless summer…not!
August 23, 2010 4 reader comments
Now is usually the time to write the obligatory "summer is ending and I'm feeling wistful" post, but to do so would be disingenuous. Yes, I love fireflies and ice cream and corn-on-the-cob as much as the next person, but you know what I don't like? …
Mondays are for dreaming: Views of London
August 16, 2010 7 reader comments
When the boys said they wanted to go up in the London Eye I was dubious. Expensive, crowded, tourist trap…these were the words that came to my mind. And yet as we approached it on the afternoon of our ride I realized that like the Eiffel Tower it …
Castles, dinos, and birdhouses on the shores of Lake Champlain
August 13, 2010 4 reader comments
I haven't been taking too many actual pictures during our Vermont vacation this year, choosing instead to take mental photographs. In some ways these are better because I record them with all my senses: The sweet honey scent of freshly mowed grass, …
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