Inevitably, when people learn that we have been traveling since 2013 with three kids, the first question is either, “What about school?” or “What about your family?” I have been thinking a great …
Coming Together with The All Blacks
I wrote the following blog just after we arrived in New Zealand last November. This past weekend we watched our first ever All Blacks game. The season is just beginning and the words I wrote below …
Out of The Ashes – Christchurch Rising
I create - in order not to cry. - Paul Klee - Painter In 2010 and 2011, two major earthquakes and their aftershocks decimated the city of Christchurch. After the disaster, the population dropped by …
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Remembering Memorial Day on the Beaches of Normandy
Since our visit to the beaches of Normandy on Memorial Day, 2014, we have traversed so many battlefields. From Pearl Harbor to Nazi Germany, from Checkpoint Charlie to the Trail of Tears, from …
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Majestical
We have never been to the movies as a family. There were times when I would take the kids to a matinee or Ron would take the boys to see the latest superhero thriller. Typically our “movie nights” …
Completely Taken By Wanaka, New Zealand
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. - Nathanial Hawthorne We set our sights on making it to Queenstown the minute we landed in New Zealand in …
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