Author Archives: Erin

After my conference in Leeds, Mom and I flew back to Dublin to spend a few days in the city.  As I suspected, two full days were enough to tire us out and make us glad for a move to … Continue reading →

As you have probably discerned by now, Sydney is a big bird-lover.  Interestingly, though, he hasn’t been a big fan of starlings, given that they do a lot to drive other birds away.  So it really seemed just too funny … Continue reading →

After two full days of traveling (including a red-eye flight from Chicago to Dublin), Mom and I are finally curled up in a room in Leeds, where I’ll be giving a paper at the Virginia Woolf Conference this week.  After … Continue reading →

Sydney is currently making his way, flight after flight, to Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  He is going to join his brother and sister-in-law for mushroom hunting way up there.  Given the mosquitoes and our children, I thought … Continue reading →

This morning, we decided to get a bit more ambitious with our hiking.  The kids had been pretty decent about the walking yesterday, but Sydney and I were keen to try new trails and test the kids’ stamina.  So we … Continue reading →

We decided to stay overnight in the area, and found ourselves coaxing our car up a steep gravel road (Sydney needed three tries to get up the rain-soaked gravel at the peak of the incline), near the top of which … Continue reading →

After a short drive, we found ourselves in very different terrain from the horse-fences-and-lawn Bluegrass region.  As we hiked Rock Bridge, I took a number of photos.  Gratuitous photo pile-on to follow: Erin

We learned the hard way last year that hiking in the middle of a Kentucky summer can be miserably hot.  So this year we started earlier.  On Sunday we headed out for an overnight trip to Daniel Boone State Park.  … Continue reading →

Erin

On the last day of April, we picked a large colander full of strawberries from our garden.  I knew I was right to say “yes” to Sydney’s marriage proposal exactly 11 years earlier, but it’s nice to have continuing confirmation. … Continue reading →