Adventure Mama

Channel your inner Olivia Newton-John this summer with an outing to the 99-W Drive-In out Highway 99 in Newberg. Though it's a trek fro...

Take your sweetie courting this summer the old fashioned way - in a surrey with a fringe on top. These are pedal-powered surreys that you ca...

Summer ain't summer without fresh-picked berries and cherries. And while New Seasons and farmers markets have luscious offerings, there...

Great news! Not only is the sun making its first center-stage appearance in Portland in what seems like 30 years, I've just signed on as...

We’re all busy, so let’s get right to the point: we parents are constantly striving to improve our children’s physical and emotional h...

Step One: Eliminate I’m sitting at my cluttered desk in front of a Mac that crashed a while ago. All my files, emails, music, photograph...

Berry picking on the Hood River Fruit Loop So it’s the second-to-last day of August, and it’s raining. 2010 was the Summer That Wasn’t in...

Metro Parent published a couple of my stories recently that help new or expecting parents in the Portland area live more fully. Check out: ...

The kids went back to school today, making it official: summer's over. Time to show the sunny months -- with their adventure, freed...

Country music always reminds me of being on the road. I found this song I wrote in my early 30s (which, was, um, not too long ago). I always...