Every year, back-to-school season creeps up on me. It’s the joy of anticipation of warm weather, the beach, the sun, beautified by the dull gray that is the norm in the Midwest most of the year. This year’s summer also meant facing wildfire smoke, a random parasite affecting the lettuce, and multiple heat waves. It […]

I accidentally walked a mile underneath Toronto before I figured out what a sign meant. We’d gotten off the elevator on the concourse level of our hotel, thinking maybe there was a souvenir shop down there. An hour later, my daughter looked at my husband and me and whispered, “I feel like we’re not supposed […]

Have you ever stopped to think about how so many places in the world have two different names? Sometimes it’s because of language, sometimes because of history, and sometimes it’s enough to create a pretty funny misunderstanding. That thought came back to me during one of the little missions my husband and I accidentally found […]

When we think about going to Disney World, we think about kids, cartoons we haven’t seen in ages, and lots of things geared toward those demographics. While Disney can be that, the idea is that we’ll outgrow it, and that’s not always true. It’s as if wonder has an expiration date, and play is reserved […]