Is there any melancholy more dispiriting than the one felt returning from vacation? It’s like those Sunday blues you feel each week when you realize the full part of the weekend is over and you must turn your attention toward preparing for another week of work or school – except with returning from vacation, the …
Headed south through Virginia, if you get off the Interstate, time starts to do funny things. In King George County, laid out in the miles between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, farms roll like cresting waves across the warm land. The high tawny grass sways, showing you the very shape of the wind. Barns are …
It’s easy to have the prospect of a family road trip conjure up images of fights in the backseat or incessant, never-ending inquiries like the classic: “Are we there yet?” To be sure, these are realities of the road when traveling with young children. You don’t, however, want to fall into the trap of foregoing …
School’s out, Independence Day is over and vacation season is finally upon us. This weeks blog brings with it my highly anticipated start of a new blog category: Highways & Byways. I have a disease – a costly disease. I contracted it as a child, too young for me to remember. My parents intentionally infected …
This week brings with it one of my favorite holidays – Independence Day. Anyone who knows me knows I do not take the 4th of July lightly. Yes, like most Americans, I watch fireworks. Sure, I host a barbeque. But, I also recite the Declaration of Independence from memory, eat the founding fathers’ favorite food …