The bike I use to pedal home from work is a little small for me, and doesn’t have any way to attach a child seat […]
Chronology
Happy New Year!
First Christmas
We were lucky enough to have two Christmas celebrations this year: Lisa’s parents had us over to their house for a California Christmas on December […]
Ash Canyon
We were recently up in Carson City, Nevada for Christmas and – given that there’s not a speck of snow on the Sierras at the […]
Almost Crawling
First Chicken
Melbourne and the Stobie Wedding
From Adelaide we shot over to Melbourne for a few days to attend a wedding between my cousin Amy and her fiancé Andrew. We bunked […]
Raspberries
Adelaide
We’re just finishing up an almost two week visit to my home town of Adelaide, Lilia is now quite the little traveler after an almost […]
How Much I Love Food
The Lindberg Wedding
We took a trip south last weekend for Robin and Dan’s wedding in the tourist enclave of Solvang, which happens to also be Dan’s hometown. […]
Johnny JumpUp
Bail Out My Student Loan
This really irks me. I had a bit of a rant in 2008 about the federal government bailing out delinquent home owners (Bail Out My Mortgage) and […]
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit, Mark Seal I kept having to remind myself that this is a non-fiction book when I was engrossed by […]
First Halloween
Lisa had been waiting for months to dress up Lilia in the koala outfit she bought online, Halloween finally gave her the opportunity. We counted […]
The Young Wedding
The big day finally arrived yesterday: Luke and Katrina’s wedding. Carol found a brilliant old ranch in central Healdsburg where we all stayed for the […]
The Rehearsal Dinner
Sweet Potato Machine
Davis Bordessa
Wednesday morning when I woke up for work I had a text from Jacque that she had sent at 3:48AM: her water broke! Yesterday we […]
Cadillac Desert
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner Brooke Bakker put me onto this book a few months ago when we were visiting […]