It was the classic All-American road trip: Badlands, Wall Drug, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone. Played out in a 20-year-old travel trailer and a pick-up truck in the glaring heat of I-90. Two kids in the back, two overgrown ones up front. I’ve been talking about doing this trip for 10 years and we looked at the […]
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Canoe Marathon & Feeders
“Of course I’ve heard of a canoe marathon!” said no one, ever. This is my life. I am deep in the underworld of canoe racing. Few people have heard of it, fewer have done what I do each July – wade into the AuSable River in the dead of the night to drop food and […]
Crazy for eagles
Eagles have become quite a part of our household. Nelson loves them. It all started with the live eagle cam broadcast from Decorah, Iowa. Nelson’s teacher pulled up the live cam several times in class last year. The children got to watch three eagles born and fledged. Amazing. Free, no charge, priceless experience. However, it’s […]
MyPheme – Up and running!
My essay on “Running with the kids at home” was featured on www.mypheme.com today! If you cruise around their site you’ll see they have some downright outrageous to extremely funny on it. (Check out Tami Evans’s essay on “expectations” and Anna Lefler’s essay on mustaches!)
Are you expecting?
A friend of mine just posted this awesome entry about being asked if she was expecting when she was not. We all have some version of this story, don’t we? If you don’t, step off. If you do, let me share mine. It was maybe 4 years ago and I’d been talked into modeling an […]