Warm, in bed, just waking up... the kind of wake up that's happy and not rushed.  From downstairs I hear Evie, "Ahhhhhhh... No!  Not again! Nooooooo!"  Zero to tangled up in the sheets, tripping out of bed, looking for pants... clean...

Lessons Learned Here’s a lesson I’ve learned while traveling: no matter how well you plan (or avoid planning) for a destination, the absolute best way to see a place, distilled down to its most authentic ingredients, is to get someone...

These last few months have been hurtful to the old pocketbook.  We stayed well outside of the valley to facilitate Scott's interview.  We moved as far as we could east and south to a place that was recently flooded by all...