Do any of your people send out those year-end holiday newsletters in lieu of, or in addition to, Christmas cards? It’s a neat idea, it totally is, especially if you don’t spent your days lurking on their Facebook page. The downside to this kind of annual summary of key family […]
It’s loud, it’s raucous and it is intoxicated but damn, New Orleans a magical place to visit with kids. My family spent a long weekend there in the fall of 2014 and I’ve written up a handy guide for having the best weekend in the Big Easy with kids for […]
The Bear was apoplectic about spending 3+ hours in mid-July driving through Death Valley. That may or may not have been a driving force in us actually doing it. Because we’re a fan of awkward humor and of pushing our kids’ boundaries of comfort. Be adventurous, keep stepping out on […]
As we prepared for our 3-week cross country road trip, connecting the dots between a variety of cities and sights, and calculating the drive times from one hotel to the next, I remained pretty wide open to any idea, pit stop and route. The only spot in the nation where […]
Cross country road trip highlight? There were many, but the mid-summer snowball fight we had 13,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains ranks way, way, way up on the list.
When the rotten winds of hateful politics blew through the state of Indiana earlier this year, I looked at that one night on our cross country itinerary and cringed. Do we have to pass through a place that has made it okay, and even celebrated in some circles, to not […]
This is how to road trip. Give them stickers and duct tape and pipe cleaners and scissors and glue and tape and…don’t turn around. They will have the time of their lives and you will, well, you will stay sane. This photo of the mouse is from day 1. It […]
It’s not a metaphor. It’s the City Museum in St. Louis, where holding on is every bit as essential as letting go. There’s no place better to be a child in America than this rough and tumble wonderland. Read more about City Museum and other family fun spots in and […]
