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Although I’d been sailing along pretty happily with our home life–some reading, some writing, much painting and playing and cleaning–the kids have been nudging me toward school this past week.  When we got Katherine’s teacher information and supply list in … Continue reading →

In case you’ve been getting radio silence from us over the past few weeks, we’ve been spending most of our time tackling house projects.  The day I got back from England, Sydney started planning out how to build porch columns … Continue reading →

I didn’t fancy trying to drive in Ireland, so we took a coach tour that got us out of the city limits.  It also gave us front-row seats to Ireland’s wonderfully changeable weather, which is why the sky gets as … Continue reading →

As is usual with me, what I most enjoyed of our trip overseas was the freedom to walk everywhere.  Only once did I get a bit too much walking in.  On our first night in Galway, we left our apartment … Continue reading →

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 →

As Erin mentioned in a previous post, I recently went to the Northwest Territories to hunt mushrooms. I spent much of my time tramping through forests burned down within the last two years, peering intently at the ground trying (a) … 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 →