Summer Bucket List 2018

November 23rd, 2018 - posted under: The Farm » Family

I am acutely aware that it’s the day after Thanksgiving, that it’s well into autumn, and I am just now posting this Summer Wrap-Up post. What can I say? It’s been a very, very busy year. I don’t have much time for blogging these day. Don’t have much time for anything really, other than working [...]

Spring Things [2018]

June 17th, 2018 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Spring is for adventure! When I began the draft of this post, I titled it “Spring Things [2017]“, and I worked on it for weeks, returning to it, adding a bit here and there (that’s how I tend to blog these days) before I realized that it’s not actually 2017 anymore. I almost published it [...]

Spring Break Family Road Trip Part II: Desert Hot Springs, Joshua Tree, & Big Bear Lake

April 13th, 2018 - posted under: The Farm » Family

After a few days of camping and exploring at Anza Borrego desert, we were ready to hit the open road again. I think if I could do my life over, I would find a way to be a permanent nomad (maybe it’s not too late, some day in the future). I love waking up in [...]

Spring Break Family Road Trip Part I: Anza Borrego Desert & The Salton Sea

April 7th, 2018 - posted under: The Farm » Family

For the entire last week of March, for Spring Break 2018 which happened to line up perfectly at the kiddo’s school and the University where I work, for a much needed vacation for a very busy family, and for our mutual, unadulterated love of the open road: Jeremy, Waits, Vesper, and I, went adventuring. Six [...]

For His Eighth Birthday

March 14th, 2018 - posted under: The Farm » Family

Sitting here trying to write this post, it’s difficult for me to find the right words — because I’m not sure there are “right words” — to express that impossible-yet-totally-predictable-and-average phenomenon of your baby becoming not a baby. Like, not a baby at all. Recently Waits informed me that he has a “crush” on a [...]