So we're all in the thick of it now, preparing for the holidays. Whatever and however you and your family celebrate, you are likely headed for some vacation from school and work next week, an ideal time for some fun family outings. Better still, with …
Traveling with school-age kids
Mondays are for dreaming: A departure from your regularly scheduled program
August 1, 2010 6 reader comments
I'd like to interrupt my series of London posts (don't worry, I've got lots more planned) to share something that is currently going on in Mother-Of-All-Trips land. I've been thinking over the past few days about the amount of traveling I've done …
“Screen time” on the road – or an ode to my own hypocrisy
April 23, 2010 7 reader comments
My name is Mara and I am addicted to my new iPhone. Phew. It feels good to write those words. I'm a little sad and ashamed to report that on our recent trip to Los Angeles and Arizona, I was guilty of something I deplore – hunching over the screen …
Suddenly I’m traveling with bigger kids
August 4, 2009 9 reader comments
We're deep into the first week of our annual trip to Vermont. This weekend some of our friends from home who have a one-year-old and a four-year-old were planning to drive over to our neck of the woods from New Hampshire, where they had been …
Road trip with kids: How’d they do that?
July 9, 2009 5 reader comments
We just got back from 2855 miles on the road. I'm working on posts about our trip; I've got lots to say about the place we went, about what worked, and about what I'd do differently, but while I work on gathering my ideas into written form, I thought …
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