Hi from Rapid City, SD. (This is a really cool area, by the way). (More on that later). Guess what? We've lived in an RV for 1/2 a year. Here are the stats of our trek across the USA so far: 182 -- number of days on-the-road 23 -- states visited 42 -- organizations served […]
For a long time, we didn't own any kids DVDs at all. Now that we're spending a fair amount of time on the road, we've begun slowly adding to our collection. (We don't own a TV, but we do have portable DVD players). Tim & I are very cognizant about the power of media to […]
A press release landed in my inbox last week: The majority of Americans know the names of their neighbor's pets but not their neighbor's kids. Crazy, right? When we lived in Vail, we knew most of our neighbors...but not all of them. In fact, we had some regrets when we moved out because we wished […]
Have you ever been to Texas? We spent an entire month there this past February - two weeks in Canyon Lake (near San Antonio), two weeks in Austin. We quickly discovered that: Texas has amazing playgrounds (except they call them "playscapes" in that state). Texas has the best grocery stores (Hello, Whole Foods and Central […]
Have you ever seen the movie "What Women Want," starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt? Quick Overview: Mel's character gains the ability to read womens' thoughts...and he quickly discovers that their thoughts are going in a hundred different directions at about a mile a minute. I laughed out loud; the producer got it exactly right. Here's […]
At age 20, I graduated with my B.A. in English. At age 22, I graduated with my M.A. in Educational Counseling. Within a few months of graduating, I landed a position as a high school guidance counselor in a 2600-student school in inner-city Phoenix. When we moved to Tucson, I was hired on as the […]
We've been giving and living on-the-road for over four months now. We're simultaneously excited and exhausted, petrified and peaceful. We're also gearing up to launch a "phase 2" of our year of learning (stay tuned). In the meantime, I wanted to say a huge thank you to two of our sponsoring brands. Lansinoh is a […]
I remember the first time that I met Kristen. Her short white-blonde hair, grey-blue eyes, pixie ears, and heart-shaped face. Her short shorts and rolled socks. We met at the freshmen party, at the end of a scorching summer. We were standing there, partaking in awkward and excited small talk - playing it cool, the […]