This weekend, we made sure our eating was balanced with exercise.   By Hannah Wallace   Ugh, my pants feel tight.   So yeah, Thanksgiving dealt us its usual caloric blow, but we didn’t go down without a fight. Experiment A: There’s a new YouFit gym that’s arisen near our house in a shopping center [...]

We pitch our tent for an overnight camping trip.   By Hannah Wallace   CCB and I headed to Lake Manatee State Park this weekend to camp with the Harribles. While the two of us were just in it for the fresh air and whatnot, the Harribles were also tasked with helping their son, the [...]

Filling your lunch hour when you can’t go home.   By Hannah Wallace   When I lived in Indian Beach, I went home for my lunch breaks. I could cook some food, watch TV, take a nap, you name it. But when CCB and I moved to a house in Bradenton, 12 miles up traffic-light-laden [...]

A local connection to the history—and possible future?—of transportation.           By Hannah Wallace             Since embarking on his semi-permanent sabbatical, my father’s had time to indulge some new obsessions…er, “academic pursuits”—everything from world religion to gardening. Most notably, he spent a good deal of the last [...]

Our most successful party to date yields many great pictures.   By Hannah Wallace     Woo!   Ghosts in the Ghetto tour from Hannah Wallace on Vimeo.     Sunday morning, after sleeping in his car parked on our Bradenton street, Scoops grumbled into our spare bathroom to wash up for the morning. Mr. [...]