When you pack up your lives for a month and go anywhere, it’s a chore – even if you are escaping to somewhere warm and sunny from somewhere cold and wet and muddy and snowy and brown and…well, you get the picture. There are so many things to arrange and finish and temporarily stop and [...]

When we started summer camp planning back in February (seriously – that’s when I booked them in their first camp), I received recommendations for many camps. But one, in particular, stood out. Pedalheads is a summer camp for cycling. And being an avid cyclist, I wanted the kids to learn. Several parents in our circle [...]

These days, if I’m not helping my teenager learn how to drive, I can be found in a nearby field helping my almost 7 year-olds learn how to ride their new bikes. I’ve been riding a bike for 40 years and, like driving, most of the skill associated with it is unconscious after that much [...]