There Goes the College Fund

It’s been awhile, but since landing in Wisconsin we’ve been working on building the college fund back up, which is far less fun to...

So often mothers talk about how having children has so profoundly changed them that you’d think the mere act of squeezing a child out of...

I guess even vacation blogs (is that what this is?) need vacations. After leaving Portugal we made our way back to Wisconsin (with a...

There it was, like the promise of salvation at the end of weather.com’s weekly forecast: a big fat butter sun boosted even brighter by...

Damn it, Bourdain... I, like so many other vagabonds before me, was inspired by his wanderlust, his wit, his candor, his courage, and his...

Once I came to terms with the fact that I had basically moved my family to the Nebraska of Portugal I got out the guidebooks, the travel...

I met Zoe my second day in New York City, during orientation for the small liberal arts college that I spent the next five years...

Any secret society buffs out there? The Knights of Templar might ring a (church) bell? Kind of like an ancient version of the Hell’s...

When we planned this beast of a trip, it was simply to get back to Spain. Then, as these things go, it ballooned blossomed. I guess I...

Tarifa. The southernmost point of Europe, where the coastal legs of Spain come to a perfect point and her toe cheese (Manchego,...

Our last week in Spain the sun came out, just in time for Semana Santa, the holy week preceding Easter Sunday. Apparently holidays in...

When we hatched this trip, Wilder and Nakota were a year and a half. They were rocking a three-hour nap on the reg, and it only seemed...

As a kid, my favorite magazine was Architectural Digest. My parents had a subscription to the aspirational tome, and by the time I was...

Coming back to Marrakesh after six weeks on the road was like coming back to an entirely different city. Instead of staying in the medina...

Wanted to rewind to a day trip we took last week to Sidi Ifni, a fishing port 20 minutes down the coast from Mirleft. Sidi Ifni was under...

I find myself planning our retirement, all the places we’ll go when the kids are up and out of our laissez-faire care. Alaska. Antartica....

Many starts to this blog post. First I started writing about the amazing German couple we met. Turns out Billy and I aren’t nearly as...

I grew up in the far south suburbs of Chicago, a place that isn’t really considered a suburb except by the people that live there. When I...

Do you remember that girl - woman, I guess - a couple years ago who was on her way to Africa, and before the plane took off she tweeted...

Inertia = Death. This was one of my Dad’s many maxims, passed on to me at such an early age I thought it a law as universal as “No...