The Historic Triangle: Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown
During my daughter’s primary and middle school years, history was part of her curriculum every year. She spent a year studying Spanish history and memorizing the 17 autonomous communities in Spain (and had the wisdom at age 7 to ask me “why do I have to learn these?”), another year devoted to the Middle Ages (6th grade) and a semester on Greek history which culminated in a class trip to Greece to see the sights they had been studying. At the time,we didn’t think twice about her history curriculum although my husband was on a quest to show her as many ruins as possible. Read more 
Hartford, Connecticut With Kids
Navigating and figuring out how to entertain kids in a city is always a challenge. Harford, Connecticut has five great places to take kids:
- The Connecticut Science Center
- Mark Twain House and Museum
- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
- Bushnell Performing Arts Center
- XL Center Read more
Microsoft and Apple….The USA and Switzerland
Top Ten List for Palm Beach, Florida
Road Trips Made Bearable
Road trips can be monotonous, boring, and long – and if there are kids or teenagers in the car, a road trip is about as much fun as organizing a high school reunion. So, the challenge is how to make a road trip bearable and the answer is to stop along the way to tour a factory and learn how something is made. Read more
Fleeing Hartford, Connecticut
Blue Mountain Lake, 12812
Today, like most days I stopped at the local post office to pick up the mail. We don’t have mail delivery in our small village called Blue Mountain Lake in upstate New York – everyone has a box. Liz is our postmistress and she knows everything that is going on and is not averse to passing along information, which suits everyone just fine. In and out is impossible as locals and summer residents stop to talk about what’s going on in town (not much, usually but that’s the way everyone likes it), the weather, or how bad the black flies are this year. Read more
Paddock Post 