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Marcy Plans and Algonquin Dreams

Lead us to the Wright stuff We’re just back from the high peaks region of the Adirondacks putting a period on a two week long vacation that has taken us from Washington D.C. to Weirton, WV, Niagara Falls, Canada, and finally Lake Placid, NY. Sounds like a crazy...

A Dangerous Book?

Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...

Waltonian Island Wonders

Where four days and three nights equal one wonderfully long vacation… Saturday morning we packed the car, put the canoe on top and headed to Lake George in the southern part of New York’s Adirondack Park. Four hours later… Wow! Waltonian Island is...

Baseball, Soccer, and Other Stuff

Keep me away… So, spring has sprung and along with spring also comes the inevitable equation: 2(sports) + 3(kids)=0(time). Around this neck of the woods we do spring cleaning sometime in July. And house projects get put on hold indefinitely. Fortunately, the...