... tripworthwhile.This is an account of what happens when a family pulls up stakes and spends four months in a strange (and wonderful) place;viii / THE SWEET SEASONwhen the stresses of everyday life ... Cities, rented a car and drove the seventy-nine miles north and west to St. John s, a tiny,top-notch liberal arts university tucked off I-94 behind a massivestand of druidlike evergreens, the so-called ... called hand-foot -and- mouthdisease. Delightful. As surely as the monks gathered in prayer threetimes a day, our crises passed, and were followed by intervals of tranquillity, even bliss, that...