Category Archives: Travel

Proud and Out in Budapest and Prague

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Susan H. Greenberg

My mother loves cake. Any kind of cake: chocolate, apple, layer, carrot, cream-filled, caramel-glazed, you name it. This is one of the many things I learned–or remembered–on the 10-day trip I recently took through Central Europe with my mother and … Continue reading →

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Good Enough for Grandma

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan H. Greenberg

Now I understand why my mother always brushed my bangs out of my eyes before we visited my grandmother. There’s something about seeing your parents that makes you turn a critical eye on your own child-rearing, and nothing says “bad … Continue reading →

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Honey, I Lost the Kids

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

I was up around Franconia, New Hampshire, on what my family always refers to as “yet another” girls’ weekend (while I typically preface it with “sorely needed”) when I committed a grave error. I texted my husband with a simple … Continue reading →

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The Places Our Car Has Been

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

My husband and I tend to see eye to eye on the big issues that can make or break a marriage: politics, music, child-rearing, operating systems, sports teams. However, there is one area of dispute, religion and foreign films notwithstanding, … Continue reading →

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A Family Vacation With Someone Else’s Family

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

The biggest disadvantage of having three kids covering a seven-year age span is that it is virtually impossible to find a family activity that makes everyone happy. Movie night, for instance, means either the 9-year-old hides her eyes during Pulp … Continue reading →

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Rattlesnakes, Spiders and Bears

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

Oh my. My son returned home from a two week backpacking trip in the Blue Ridge mountains with some harrowing tales to tell, along with a smelly piece of freshly-killed-rattlesnake skin. A more anxious mother might have banned him from … Continue reading →

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My Unaccompanied Minors

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

Now that the plane has landed, I can admit it: my three kids flew alone together from Boston to Orlando this morning, and I was petrified. For Christmas last year, my sisters-in-law and their partners gave my children the best … Continue reading →

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The Best Things in Life are Freeloaded

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

This summer, my kids will swim in a series of private pools. My son will golf at a country club. We will vacation in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.  And it won’t cost us more than the price of a ferry … Continue reading →

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While You Were Out

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Susan H. Greenberg

I’m happy to report that on our girls’ weekend, we did our best to “Keep Austin Weird,” as the city’s ironic motto instructs. Laid-back, liberal Austin isn’t weird at all, except compared to the rest of the state. In fact, … Continue reading →

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