Tag: <span>outdoors</span>

50 things to do in summer with (or without) kids “Summer’s lease hath far too short a date.” Preach it, Brother.  I mean, it’s Shakespeare, after all.  The man deserves…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

“EB not know how to fix this bracelet.” It’s today’s tempest in a teapot.  A flimsy plastic purple bracelet (“Hey mom.  This EB’s fav-0-rite color.”) has had the audacity to…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

I’m currently on a little high from buying kid’s swimsuits. Particularly suits that are adorable AND make my life easier. While I love the chlorine fumes, summer radio, snack bar, damp towel days with the best of them, I can’t say I relish the soggy, overpriced swim diapers that are a toddler pool requisite. Luckily, Flap Happy swimsuits have provided me a solution to…

Kids and Treasures

“Mama, mama, mama, mama, mama!”  The pitifully trilled words tripped over themselves tumbling down stairs and pulled me away from writing before a full sentence had a chance to click…

Thoughts and Musings

Baskets of spices arrayed in rich, rainbow tones.  Thick tubes of sausages dangling from umbrella rafters.  Rattan baskets pressed between arm and hip, bulging with selected produce.  Olive oil vats…

Wanderings and Travel

I think of myself as an urbanite.  My earliest memories include frying an egg on the miraged surface of a Phoenix sidewalk, needing a new Care Bear from the neighborhood…

Thoughts and Musings