Best Strategy to sync calendar between 2 computers

I use iCal with several calendars on my MacBook & iPhone. I want to setup something to enable my wife to see my calendar on her MBP, as I update my schedule. Is there a good way to do this? I have used Mobile-Me, and loved it, but that was the only featured I used it for, so the fee is impractical for just calendar syncing.
Is there a way to do it through google calendar? I read lots of posts on her about that approach, but I could not find basic/foundational posts on the best option for me.
Is there something better/easier?
I would love any thoughts or advice anyone has. Let me know if you need me to expound more on my situation.

Thanks to someone either in this forum or on Google's forum, I found an answer. It may help you. My Google synced properly with iCal after I set up the account properly. However, when entering data in iCal to sync automatically with GCal:
Go to View, Show Calender List. That's the gray column on the left. It should list your Google calendar by whatever name you gave it when setting up the account in iCal.
UNcheck all the iCal boxes (Home, Unfiled, Personal, etc). Be sure to check or highlight the Google calendar. Then enter data in iCal. When you are Done, you should see the rotating signal that it's immediately syncing with GCal.
At least, that's the way it works for me!

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