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Welcome to CBC Radio listeners!

We were thrilled to be invited to Ottawa Morning to talk about Operation Hejira, our plan to travel the world with our kids! Update: the link to the interview is here. Click here to subscribe to our blog updates and follow our journey. Alison’s creativity coaching website, Design Your Art-Committed Life, is at gresik.ca.

You’re invited to a party!

Our family is hitting the open road and we want to say good-bye! We’re hosting a low-key, child-friendly party and open mic coffeehouse on Saturday, June 11 at 2pm so we can celebrate and visit with friends and family. We’ll serve cake and coffee, natch. We would love to have you there, and share a […]

Operation Hejira is a go

We’re leaving the country. That’s right, we’re taking our life on the road (or, more accurately, to the skies) and spending the next few years abroad.

Welcome readers from Location Independent Parents!

Thanks to everyone who’s stopping by from Location Independent Parents, where Lea and Jenn have taken me on as a guest writer (my intro post, Meet the Lifestyle Writer: Alison Gresik, Who Turned Parental Leave Into a Nomadic Experiment, went up today.) (more…)

School Lunch, Take One

My school-lunch-making career has begun. Two weeks ago Lia started daycare at the school where she’ll go to kindergarten. She jumped up and down when she saw the pink Laptop Lunch case I bought for her (a purchase I’d been looking forward to ever since I discovered the blog Vegan Lunch Box). (more…)