Monday morning, on vacation. Third full day of the family roadtrip, north. Summer with the Cohn family is typically a tangle of week-long day camps for the kids, swimming lessons […]

Devon was under the weather yesterday morning and Andy was still away at a sleepover, so I took a swing at doing the “Dad” thing and hauled Jem out to […]

Walking along 5th Ave – Pittsburgh – this morning, traversing the four or so blocks from the Holiday Inn to Craig Street, triggered a flood of memories. That was no […]

“When the Seattle schools called their fourth ‘snow day’ of the month, I looked online and noticed that only one of my friends with kids had a Facebook status that […]

Patty Larkin’s song “Helen“, paints the picture of an aging matriarch lamenting the changes that have come to her beloved rocky coastal down Maine, 40 miles from the Canadian border. […]

If you’ve ever spent the weekend up in the mountains camping out at one of those 60’s hippy-esque freeform music festivals, it’s pretty easy to describe what Folklife is. Exactly […]

Okay, actually on a roadtrip for the first time in a couple of months, so I guess I best try to live up to the blog’s namesake. On my way […]

Not the traditional road trip, this one, but a trip back through time. This past Friday night, a bunch of my co-workers and our respective spouses left our respective kids […]

As of 5:00 yesterday afternoon, my two-month sabbatical is officially over. I head back to work on Monday morning, poised to dive back into the fray and discover whether either […]

Blog’s been a little sparse lately, eh? Yeah, I know. I’m painfully aware that these last two months, while I’ve been on sabbatical with “all the time in the world” […]