There Goes the College Fund

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...