Lots of amazing trees for climbing and zipline-ing on in the Daintree rainforest! One of our first adventures in the Daintree area was a zipline tour of the forest.  

We weren’t able to blog while on the road, so I’ll post some photos from our trip to Australia now that we’re back. We flew from Chicago – Dallas – Brisbane – Cairns, spent the night in Cairns, then drove up north of the Daintree River to Cape Tribulation. Colette…

Today we went to hear 4 authors of young adult fiction speak in a panel at the Printer’s Row Lit Fest. Veronica Roth (picture above with Miles) was the main draw, since Miles and I have both read her two books “Divergent” and “Insurgent”, fiction set in a future post-apocalyptic…

Miles and hi class went on a trip to the zoo 2 weeks ago. Here he is with his 5th grade buddies (4th from right). Thanks to sarah for the pic!

Slugs are eating all my lettuce. I put out saucers of beer last night and am quite shocked at the instant results. Look at all the slugs lured to their deaths, away from my lettuce! Thank you Nan and the Kennys for this tip I remember you mentioning years ago!…

The Newberry Band performed an extra gig last weekend at the Newberry spring celebration. They sounded great! Miles is in the back row with the rest of the percussion section.

We’re so proud of Liam! He was inducted in to the National Honor Society branch at his high school in a ceremony on Tuesday evening. For readers unfamiliar with NHS, it’s a national organization in the US (and according to Wikipedia, other countries too! Did not know that!) established in…

We’re just hanging out in the back garden on a very hot weekend, and I thought i’d share some pics of how it’s all looking! Photos show how big the oak leaf hydrangeas have grown, a lovely prairie iris in bloom, how tall the garlic stalks are, and john in…

Mysel, Miles and Cynthia went to a great neighborhood festival celebrating all things related to mole sauce, but also included Luche libre or mexican wrestling

John and miles looked so nice dressed alike one day last week I had to get a photo of them together!