Wonderful to have Sarah’s mom and D come up for a visit over this three-day Easter weekend. Perfect timing to make full use of our freshened bathroom space, and for Sarah and her mom to bust out some impressive culinary moves for the big Easter meal: fresh lamb from the local butcher served rare, potatoes [...]
Guns, Germs and Steel it isn’t (sorry, Jared Diamond). But I like our version better: guns (learning to shoot ‘em), friends (kind of self explanatory) and game (the superbowl kind, not the ones that run around in sylvan landscapes). So sure, these winter days have been disappointingly non-wintry this go around. But otherwise, they’ve been [...]
You know when you get those completely unexpected phone calls in the middle of your typical run-of-the-mill week days? The kind of days that almost shamefully blend into each other in a whirl of what becomes the greater part of a lifetime? (Okay, maybe that’s a little dramatic). Still, how great to get such a [...]
So we finally got a bit of snowfall today in the Boston area… with about 3-4 inches of accumulation over the course of the day. Really lovely to see the white stuff fall so fully and fat-ly through the morning into mid afternoon. And while it was good to make it out to the Saturday [...]
I’m not sure what it was, but the last few months have gone by in a condensed blur. A really wonderful blur, but a bit too fast for me. Maybe it’s most telling that up until a few days ago, I had yet to download pictures from Thanksgiving that I’ve been meaning to send out [...]
The early arriving, late afternoon darkness of autumn… a perfect time to be reminded of the hot, hot summer wedding day! So after a long and patient wait for our talented wedding photographer, here are some selected photos from The Day. And if you try just hard enough, I’m sure you can practically feel the [...]
You have to have at least one fall getaway, right? And while it doesn’t exactly qualify for the requisite, autumnal drive out to western Mass (still have plans for that one), how great to head first to Peterborough, New Hampshire for a long bike ride and then up north with friends for a bit of [...]
A few days ago and after a long battle with ALS, Brother Dave passed away, one of the kindest, most loving and most intelligent people I have ever met. And after a simple sentence, I’m at such a loss. Helplessly looking at the blinking cursor on the computer screen. Pulsing. Waiting. Because how can I [...]
September is always a magical month for baseball, with the last stretches of regular season games taking us into the autumn cool of October. So many thanks, S and R, for sharing a pair of tickets with us to see the game this evening! And congratulations to our knuckleballer Tim Wakefield on his 200th win.
Eating on the Porch Makes For A Good Meal
It’s a veritable rite of spring, and of temperate early evening weather, to have that first meal on the porch out back. It was a good way to end a particularly busy, social weekend (as Sarah put it), with a few dinner engagements, a baby shower, a visit to the church in Newton, and a [...]