Oh, home video. People always say it’s wonderful, it’s wonderful to have everything: the cities you saw, the wedding, the first steps, the faces and talk of people we love, gone, still waiting there on tape. When Josie was born there was some pressure to take video. But we didn’t want video. I find no [...]
Posted in ten-word thursday, vacation on Jul 29th, 2010
It’s been a quiet summer here, at least for the adults and one miserably hot Labrador Retriever. While Josie tore through theater stage crew, volleyball camp and writing class, Greg had his nose to the legal grindstone and I’ve been writing, writing, special-project writing, and quietly keeping fingers crossed. I know it’s still late July [...]
Posted in fruit desserts, Josie, recipes, ten-word thursday, vacation on Aug 13th, 2009
Oh sure, you’re thinking, sure. Radio silence for a week, and then just ten words? Well, yes. But they are a juicy ten. You may recall that we just came down from Lake Superior country, and up there, everywhere, blueberries. Wild blueberries from green brush, tumbling down from Canada, blueberries not from the store, little [...]
Posted in Josie, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, summer, vacation on Jul 23rd, 2008
Every August, the Kansas heat ceases to be punishing heat and becomes cruelly disciplined heat. That is our signal to escape – we flee by driving straight through an Iowa haze, further north by the hour, looking for a lake. When we finally stop in Duluth, Minnesota, we cross a bridge that skims the long [...]
Posted in new old house, vacation on Jan 21st, 2008
For the past four summers, we’ve escaped the punishing August Kansas heat by driving up the breezy, blissful North Shore of Minnesota’s scenic Highway 61. If you too parcel out vacation time around work, school and kids, you know that it’s rare to deliberately return to the same place over and over again. We used [...]
