Monthly Archive: August, 2012

All is Well.

We are here. Life is good. It has been a busy week. We arrived last Saturday and unpacked our zillion boxes, settled our rooms, crammed summer reading, finished school forms, attended orientation at… Continue reading

Mellow in Montana

We’ve enjoyed two days of rest from our travels-decompressing at a friends’ ranch in Montana. They took us up into the hills to see an old “buffalo jump;” an area where Native Americans … Continue reading

Awe Inspiring

We spent 10 hours and made our way from Rapid City to West Yellowstone with stops at some pretty spectacular displays of nature along the way: Devils Tower, Big Horn National Forest, Old… Continue reading

Westward Ho

Sitting on a rooftop watching shooting stars in Rapid City, South Dakota. All is well. We’ve watched the landscape change from endless miles of  corn and wind towers to grasslands to Badlands and… Continue reading

The eve of…

Phew. Well even if the forest fires prevent us from getting to Sun Valley, our house in Illinois is immaculate, our photos organized, papers sorted, itunes accounts stocked. I’ve got an ointment and… Continue reading

Raw Material

Packing up. A strange experience, particularly when you are leaving for a year. You get the benefits of a move: excitement, farewell drinks, well wishes without the sadness of real goodbyes. One of… Continue reading