We had such great hopes for Paris. Those of the seven of us who are less enamored of the whistle-stop-style tour (i.e., if it’s Tuesday, this must be Brussels) have been eager for our longer tenure here, a whole month! We rocketed through the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, spending at most two nights anywhere. […]
Shefler: “Today we went to the Louvre and we focused on looking at paintings today. After having a delicious beef tartar for lunch I went and looked at paintings. “The artist, Eustache Le Sueur, lived in Paris all of his life and is known for his part in the French academy for painting. A lot […]
Greetings from Zermatt, Switzerland, where we are spending the birthday of grandmother extraordinaire, Linda Carl. We have a new song that we are debuting in her honor:
As parenting without the built-in breaks of school and outside activities for the kids seemed like it would be a wee bit tiring, Jeremy and I made a plan that each of us will take one day a week “off”, in other words entirely by ourselves. While we were staying in Achnacarry in the Scottish Highlands, […]
There is an iconic figure, at least to the American mind, that is some conflation of Mary Poppins, Jane Eyre, Maria from Sound of Music (OK, I know she wasn’t British, but Julie Andrews!), and countless Victorian novels. It is the British Nanny. Those who know me well know that I love both Victorian literature […]
Since we’re homeschooling the kids (actually the vogue term for what we’re doing is ‘worldschooling’), we’re having them choose books to read on each leg of the journey that are appropriate to the location. As I considered what to offer them for our week crossing the Atlantic Ocean, I, for obvious reasons, quickly discarded the […]
This was our act for the weekly talent show on the Queen Mary 2. Rehearsals were tricky as there is no instrument practice allowed in staterooms. We just tried to find some little corner and generally attracted a small audience who wanted us to put out a hat for them to throw coins into. I […]
Someone is missing from this picture. Shefler has joined us and we are magnificently seven, but there is still someone missing. And that person’s birthday is today! That’s right, free Slurpie day. You guessed it, it’s Aunt Pei Pei! We think baby Shefler gave her that name at some point, but we’re not sure. Anyway, […]
What can I say about New York City that hasn’t already been said? I love this place. It has that “everything” quality I so admire. In spite of the fact that we were staying in Crown Heights, spending at least two hours a day on the subway, and experiencing weather of 90+ degrees and 90+ […]
A dear and thoughtful friend of mine created this collage for us as part of a farewell photo album. I’ll be returning to it in future posts as it is so spot-on insightful about all of us, but for now just notice the dream that is pictured for me, the scene from “The Sound of […]
