Over at Flickr is a photo group called Assignment Houston hosted by Houston-area photographer and blogger Laurie Ballesteros. Laurie is a friend, and when she found out that Summer and I have new Sony digital SLRs, she challenged us to become involved in her group. The premise of Assignment Houston is that once per month [...]

As many of you probably know, Summer got her driver’s license last week. We’ve been letting her run errands for us around town, gradually letting her drive further from home as we get more comfortable with her ability to get out and back safely. Tonight we let her drive Bryn to her Friday riding lesson [...]

Kiplinger.com just publish its top-10 list of the Best Cities to Live, Work and Play:
Our approach this year to picking the ten best cities in which to live and work was simple: Look for places with strong economies and abundant jobs, then demand reasonable living costs and plenty of fun things to do. When we [...]