With our Toyota Venza tightly packed with luggage, boxes of organic produce from a recent co-op order, a power saw, and a myriad of tools, we prepared for an early morning departure. Our kids, recently back from living abroad, had…

What a glorious time of year! Here in the Texas Hill Country, it hardly qualifies as Fall compared to the ones our family knew and loved for twenty-seven years in Northern New Mexico. Ahhh! How well I remember the sights,…