Seven months ago Lily came home from talk therapy and said “Dad, we need to talk.” Oh shit. What have I done? She goes on, practiced; “kids have a right to a normal Christmas with a tree and family and…
If you came here because you saw the amazing video on the New York Times site, welcome. This site is a travel blog that charts our many trips to fantastic international (and a few domestic) destinations. Inside, you…
After the trapeze day, Trish slept for three days straight. Her body is giving out. Our amazing nurse, Sheila, told us this is what the end is like. Sheila’s words ring through my head as I hold my coffee and…
Japan is unlike anything else we’ve seen. It’s as foreign as the deepest jungle of Peru, or desert of Egypt, but it’s strangely familiar because it’s the most obsessively developed country on the planet. Add to that a centuries old…
This is a photo update post written months after our final day in Kyoto Japan. Like many of our last days on vacation, I couldn’t get the writing done to post the blog live. But it was one of our…