walking on travels

We do a lot of dreaming in this family, none more so than when a new year is dawning and 12 months of possibilities are before us. Sometimes I know what lies ahead. Other years I start with a fresh canvas (or calendar in our case) and start filling in the dates with various plans. [...]

Ever get stuck in a rut? You know, the one where you go to the same places and eat the same food off the menu with each visit? Yeah. Me too. What’s worse is that we are letting Dek get stuck in his ways as well. We need to get more proactive about pushing his [...]

Dek and I go out exploring around the city of Seattle a lot during the week. This usually means that Mike misses out on our adventures as he slaves away at the office. Every once in a while I am able to convince Mike to forget about the list of endless weekend chores we have [...]

Some days you just can’t stay inside anymore no matter what the weather. A few weeks back Dek and I had one of those days. It had been raining all week. I was getting cabin fever; Dek was bouncing off the walls. I cried enough is enough. It wasn’t raining at that very second. We [...]

I find it daunting that my son Dek is a more adventurous eater at almost 3 years old than I was up until my mid-twenties. I did not grow up in a culinary household. Nightly meals consisted of baked chicken with no seasoning, baked potatoes and cooked corn. Maybe a watery batch of homemade Mac [...]

Tomorrow I have a post going up giving a quick peek into how I became a more adventurous eater. The first step was simply taking myself out of my comfort zone and exposing myself to the unfamiliar foods of another culture. Here are a few outtake photos from that post. Come back tomorrow for the [...]

What is your sanity worth? I found out that mine wasn’t worth much as we packed up to leave Kyoto and head back home. As if some of our hapless wanderings were not enough, we had to overcomplicated getting to the airport. Mike had a plan. I would strap Dek onto my back in the [...]