2023 Year in Review

One of the major highlights of 2023 was “travel” as we again set aside a large chunk of our summer to go stay like a local in another place (Quebec City to be exact).  But appropriately, the Year in Review below is more than just travels away from home,...

2022 Year in Review

For all of 2022, I don’t believe I’ve made any updates to this blog, and a big reason for that is I’ve reserved my major writing tasks to my annual tradition of composing my Year in Review with commentary and photos, which was no small task. ...

2021 Year In Review

We recently received a number of end of the year Christmas postcards, where various friends or family highlighted their year in a few words and a few photos.  With some envy, I often ask myself why can’t I be content with such brevity.  Why am I compelled each...

Now I Know My ABC’s

Two things Walker loves at this age (2 1/2 years):  Seeing himself in videos and the ABC’s.  To our surprise, he has fervently taken to letters – likes playing with them as shapes, puzzles and watching ABC / phonics videos online.  He also like singing, as...