Emily and Adam McMahan and their sons Finn and Micah have returned from two weeks in Belize. They went to Mayan temples, sailed to snorkeling spots and cayes on a catamaran, explored caves, went horseback riding, made tortillas and Belizean clay pots at a Mayan women’s co-op, and saw scorpions, iguanas, Morrissey crocodiles, howler monkeys, birds, tarantulas, and a Fer de Lance snake. After their trip, the family spent a long weekend in Juneau, where…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...