I love a bonus.  That something extra on top of something good. Like the other day when Ian brought the kids over to the violin store for ...

This year's BlogHer convention is happening down in Chicago.  I've been waiting for it to be held somewhere accessible for years, bu...

When I wrote a while back about doing origami with my kids , a friend of mine offered to come to my house and give us all some lessons.  She...

Our family talked at the beginning of the summer about things we want to do before vacation is up.  The top thing on my list?  Get one of e...

I am behind.  On just.... everything. At least here on my blog I can catch up with one messy post of odds and ends.  This won't be ver...

Quinn baiting a hook on shore. We just had a lovely (if too short) trip to the cottage .  Aden got to bring a friend along which worked ...

I wrote this essay as I was preparing to launch my first novel.  (Buy my book!)   It aired on our local public radio station the other day, ...