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I'm not gonna even pretend Hanna and I are fully back in Boston headspace, although we arrived back home mid-afternoon on Saturday. ...

moon + venus. norridgewock, maine. Hanna and I are back in Michigan. My grandmother had a stroke on Tuesday afternoon and at first th...

Yesterday, in an attempt to re-boot the vacation we're inadvertently having, Hanna and I took a small road-trip to South Haven, Michigan...

Today, our flights were re-scheduled for the fifth time in a week -- pushing us out to ten additional days in Michigan! It's wicked wild...

Today was a slump-y sort of day. We woke up to yet another round of emails announcing the cancellation of our flights home (scheduled for to...

Since last Thursday's post , our flights out of Michigan have been cancelled twice more due to weather, and now we're scheduled to ...

My childhood home in Holland, Mich. (December 2013) As this post goes live, Hanna and I will be  landing in Boston and making our way b...

cross-posted from the family scholars blog . April DeBoer (second from left) sits with her adopted daughter Ryanne, 3, and Jayne Rowse a...

I've been critical of my alma mater, Hope College, here on this blog in the past -- particularly when it comes to the institutional ref...

This summer has brought back a lot of memories from the summer before my little sister was born (1987). The summer I learned to swim because...

Yesterday, I finished reading an advance review copy of Michael J. Klarman's From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Str...

via the Women's Studies Facebook Page On 6 March I participated in a panel presentation/discussion at my alma mater Hope College in...

1) Went to breakfast at Marie Catrib's in Grand Rapids this morning with Hanna, my parents, and dear friend Joseph .  Their apple onion ...

1) Had a lovely evening on the Women's Studies panel with fellow Hope College graduates Janet Swim ('83), Anne Lucas ('96), and...

So it's that time of year again, and Hanna and I are off to Michigan for a week of vacation (for her) and vacation/work (for me). I...