• Developing Language

    I've been working on this post about Storm's growing vocabulary for a while now. I just couldn't seem to find the right time to finish it. In my head, I was waiting for his language development to

  • Things to make with your excess sourdough starter

    I've now been maintaining my sourdough starter for nearly three months. It's going well. After the initial failure to produce edible bread with this starter, I have baked a batch of successful breads

  • BLK!

    For the past couple of months, Storm has been steadily increasing his vocabulary. It is amazingly wondrous and fun to witness him learning labels for things. And for the most part, Storm is mostly

  • Impossible Burger

    Through friends of friends with connections, we obtained some Impossible "meat", which is not meat at all but a plant-based protein, which looks, cooks, and tastes much like beef. We've eaten

  • A Sort of Progress Report

    After returning to San Diego, I have started implementing changes to my life-style in order to reduce some of my impact on the planet. Some things have gone well, others not so much. This post is a

  • Walking

    Although we are firm believers in Storm reaching his developmental milestones in his own good time (as if there were any other way...), we have been watching his progress towards walking very closely.

  • Return of the Sourdough Bread

    I'm baking again! I'm super excited about it. I started a new sourdough starter shortly after we returned to San Diego, and last week I baked with it for the first time. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite

  • The end of the 2018 journey

    Now that we've been back in San Diego for a couple of weeks, I thought i would share a few reflections on our epic traveling year. It feels like we gone for a year, though it was really only 9 months.

  • A Year with Storm

    It has now been over a year since we first met Storm in the outside world. Time has passed so fast, but at the same time we have moved around so much that there are many distinct anchoring places for

  • Storm’s First Birthday

    Storm turned one last week. We celebrated a bit early because we had a chance to have most of the grandparents over on our last weekend in Germany. We had cake - Storm seemed to like both it, and