A native Austinite and soccer-playing mom, Nicole uses her 6-year-old son as anexcuse to rediscover her hometown through his eyes. In Thoreau's words, hermission is to "suck out all the marrow of life", or in her son's words, tocultivate in him a love of "advenchers". You can also find her writing atLiveMom [http://www.livemom.com/] and the Savvy Source for Parents[http://www.savvysource.com/].