How many times have you read Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg?  Most of us have books that we read over and over to our children.  It turns out that reading a book repeatedly is a great way to start a child on the road to literacy.  If you want to read a research paper […]

A year ago today Erin and I set out on our Lit Lab adventure from Seattle to Winter Park. For the last 5 days, I have been creating spreadsheets that help summarize what we have accomplished since the Lit Lab beginning in May, 2011. Though I found it a headache to work with numbers all […]

Today marked our six-week anniversary of leaving Seattle to drive the Literacy Lab all the way to Orlando, Florida! We ended the journey, appropriately, by visiting a second-grade class my mom had visited back in June, thus completing the round trip. And what a trip it has been. Over the past six weeks, we have: […]

Wow. We have one week left! I can’t believe how quickly five weeks have passed. Thankfully I have a fiancée waiting in Seattle for me and a wedding in less than a month (!), or I’d feel a little more bittersweet. Granted, my mom and I see this trip as the beginning of our Literacy […]

It’s hard to believe we have passed the halfway mark of our journey! Last Monday the 10th, we departed Michigan and headed to Cleveland, Ohio for the night where we saw my brother, his girlfriend, and a good friend of mine. Then on Tuesday, we drove to Newark, Delaware because on Wednesday afternoon, we had […]

As usual, I’m a little behind, but better late than never, right? We had a blast in the Detroit, Michigan area, including a few new experiences that I’m excited to write about! We arrived in Novi, Michigan (a suburb outside of Detroit) on Thursday night Oct. 7th for a wonderful home-cooked dinner with family friends. […]

I’m a little behind because we’re having so much fun visiting friends! This past Tuesday the 4th, we drove from Janesville, WI (where we had stopped for the night) to Chicago, IL in the morning. We had to get to Wheaton (a suburb outside of Chicago) by Tuesday afternoon at 12:45pm because we had to […]

I’m realizing now why social media consultant and marketing positions are actually needed for companies and organizations. Right now, it’s 10:30pm, I’ve been visiting with a friend in Janesville, Wisconsin who I haven’t seen in forever and wishing she would move back to Seattle, and I’d love nothing more than to crawl onto my comfy air mattress, […]

Today has been an AWESOME day. (And it’s not just because we made it on the local TV station and the Lincoln Journal Star, honest. Although our moment of fame is pretty fun, I will admit).  The real reason it was so awesome is that we visited this fabulous school, Norwood Park Elementary, a small elementary […]

I’m pretty sure that title is too long, per the rules that we learned in elementary school, but I’m going to stick with it because it pretty much describes our weekend in a nutshell. (Well, except for the part where my mom and I are acting as parents to a 10-year-old, an 11-year-old, and a […]