Northern Girl has posted on her blog (whaling season) a moving article about her relationship with her teenage daughter. Her writing is refreshingly direct and leaves some haunting imagery as an afterglow. It really resonated with how I feel about my own parenting.
As a parent, sometimes I stop and wonder where the time has gone [...]

I have to link to this post from Darren at Problogger.net. His list of reasons why having a blog is like having a baby are filled with great insights. With children of my own, I know where he’s coming from and can see some of the parallels. As I remarked in a comment on his [...]

I was just looking at some pictures from my cell phone and thought I’d post a few. A few weeks ago we took a family day trip to Cincinnati’s Krohn Conservatory for their annual butterfly festival. This place is small, but has some amazing displays of plants from around the world as well as some [...]