Every day closer to our departure, I am getting more excited and, honestly, a bit more freaked out. Reading other travel blogs excites me and then sets a new bar of…
We hit the six-months-to go mark yesterday. Whoa, yikes!..I just caught my breath when I wrote that. That means about 180 days to ready, steady, go. In my whirling life I…
Argh…big sigh…I realize I can write a lot about the state of the world. This is a lot of  what I have been talking about in my work and professional life…
As I write this in the middle of the night, I am not struck by the irony of my thought or suggestion. I was tossing and turning tonight as I churned…
Our son, Oakley Grange, crawled into our bed early this morning. This hasn’t happened in a while and it was a welcome, warm snuggle. There was a time when this was…
This week in Portland, Oregon we got hit with a whammy of a snow storm. All this snow has given us a lot of indoor time and aside from playing chess…
The calendar has turned over to 2017 and we are that much closer to our plan to wander out in the world with our seven and nine-year olds. These next months…
Last week we got our passport applications in for the boys. A unique experience of paperwork, official documents, checks and the execution of a right-handed pledge to a post office employee…
I have an interesting job for this time in our culture. Over the years, as a therapist, I hear people talk about their varied concerns. These last two weeks, I…
I wondered about why it has taken me so many days to write as I have a lot buzzing in my head and then, I realized, this is because I am…