Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part 7 — Columbus, Ohio to Beaver, Pa.

Valentine Brkich July 17, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part 6 — Chicago to Liberty, Ind.

Valentine Brkich July 13, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part 5 — Milwaukee to Chicago

Valentine Brkich July 12, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part 4 — Galena to Milwaukee

Valentine Brkich July 10, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part 2 — Traverse City to Mackinac Island

Valentine Brkich July 7, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Road Trip 2017: The Great Midwest, Part I — Saugatuck and Traverse City

Valentine Brkich July 6, 2017

A couple weeks ago, my wife, kids, and I packed into the “family truckster,” i.e., our Sonata, and set off on our Annual Brkich Family Road-Trip Adventure. The first year took us to New England; last year it was the great Southeast. This year we decided to head west—Midwest, to be precise, to see what hidden treasures…

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Hosting A Yard Sale – A How-To Guide

Valentine Brkich May 24, 2017

Last weekend we held our annual family yard sale. If you’ve never experienced the pleasure of dragging your junk out in the front yard, pricing it for practically nothing, and then quarreling with strangers over pennies…boy have you missing out! We’ve been repeating this springtime ritual for several years in a row now, and people are always…

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Springtime Musings

Valentine Brkich April 27, 2017

Seven years ago when we moved into our new home along Beaver Street, it was the dead of winter — February, in fact — and there was more than three feet of snow on the ground. What I’m trying to say is, we didn’t buy our house for the landscaping. Three months later, we were pleasantly surprised when our front…

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Minecraft, Pokémon, and Other Mysteries of the Universe

Valentine Brkich March 23, 2017

Of all the great mysteries of the universe — dark matter, black holes, the allure of daytime television, etc. — two in particular have me utterly perplexed: Minecraft and Pokémon. It all began when my son, aka The Animal, went to school with a $15 Minecraft action figure and then came home instead with four beat-up old Pokémon cards…

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