S and I read somewhere (a blog?) that, despite the generous year we’ve been given, our ’round-the-world tracks will really amount to A THIN BLACK LINE around our massive globe. It’s a phrase we’ve used repeatedly when discussing our year away. I’m here to tell...

We’ve had some requests to update our WHERE WE ARE page … so we’ve done it. Reach it through the above link (below the page logo) … or click here.

  We’ve been staying in a commuter community called Chilton. S came across a posted flyer calling one and all to join Chilton’s bell ringers for a Tuesday night workshop. These aren’t hand bells, mind you — they are the REAL DEAL, church bells, high up in a...

(S and the boys are in a clump in the bottom left part of this picture.) One lesson from today’s free audio tour around Stonehenge: “Take away all the scholarship and archeology and myth and legend and debate over Stonehenge, and you still have a profound site.” So...

This week, we walked in the footsteps of C.S. Lewis — the very place he’d been at Oxford’s Magdalen College before writing these words: You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the...

S chooses to wander through the rose garden. W, H, and E choose to lay down on the “awesome grass.” H is standing on top of a burial mound that’s thousands of years old and yells out over the other visitors at the site: “I am standing on the dead people!” S has...

Today we tackled the Blenheim Palace hedge maze, featured in The Calder Game. Our dinner discussion included “How is life like a maze?” Some of our answers: * It’s rough when you fall. * You can’t see the whole path ahead, only to the next turn. * Sometimes you get...

A shoutout to our friends in Fairfax and Falls Church schools starting school today. “Hope they have a good...