Four years ago I reconnected with a family member that I had not seen since I was a kid. My dad's first cousin, "Aunt Gina," lives in the New York City area; her apartment in Jersey City is a twenty minute train ride from Manhattan. For the past three years, my daughter Elizabeth and I have stayed with my Aunt Gina for a week in the spring. I love to travel. The first year we visited, in 2014, Elizabeth was five years old. That first year was a litmus test, to see what Elizab

I recently returned from a two week trip with my family to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We (my partner Andrew and I, and our daughter Elizabeth) chose San Miguel de Allende (SMA), because my friend Cari had mentioned six months earlier that she and her husband Eric and daughter Chloe were going to be spending some time there in the summer, and would we care to join them? Our daughters are one year apart in age, so it seemed like a great opportunity for some fun! The girls k