Monthly Archives: June 2016

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 →