Monthly Archives: June 2014

The daytime highs this week have been flirting with 90, and it’s only going down to about 70 at night, so we’re shifting to new routines.  This morning, since the kids were up early, I took them to the park … Continue reading →

For a mini-Father’s Day trip, we headed to Cincinnati on Saturday.  We combined kid and adult interests, visiting the Cincinnati Zoo and also Jungle Jim’s, a huge and quirky grocery store that has four aisles of hot sauce, lots of … Continue reading →

While we were in Iowa, Sydney and I had the chance to take an overnight trip by ourselves, so we headed north.  It was great on many fronts: we revisited Stillwater, MN, a town full of used book stores and … Continue reading →

By this point, finding new bird species for me to see this side of the Rockies is quite difficult. But I had some great birding excursions on our recent trip to Iowa and, among the 149 species I spotted, I … Continue reading →

While we were visiting my parents in Iowa, we got to take Sydney and the kids to some of my favorite parks and nature preserves in the area.  One of them, Hickory Hills, I remember as the place where some … Continue reading →