on the edge of ordinary

I'm a bit excited, we've got our next camping expedition booked. It's at a campsite on a lake at the base of Mt Fuji: Lake Sai, ...

  Every week we put out at least this much clean plastic, most of it wrappers off food. It's great that this seems to be "recycla...

Today was a slow day. They cancelled cross country so we got to sleep in. So nice. I read for quite a while after that too and breakfast fo...

Here is where the two main rivers of our city join, less than 1km from our house. Continuing my posts about our city and trying not to ...

I blogged the following post in 2010 when our boys were 11, 8, and 5. Friends who have little ones I want to encourage you: it isn't li...

I'm basking in sunshine as I type this. Yesterday was a horrible grey day that never made it up to 20 degrees. As a result I didn't...

The rhythms of life are gradually changing for us. In our early to mid 40s we now have boys who are in middle and high school. When I wrote ...