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.
Ah, Labor Day weekend. The final gasp of summer before the harried beginning of the new school year. So it was especially good to have Sarah’s mom and D come up for a few days, during which we did a day trip up to Maine (a bit of fried clams and some lake swimming) and [...]
It almost feels like a slight miracle, sitting out here on the 2nd floor back porch of the Carriage House room #4 at the Fairville Inn. It’s a quarter until eight on a Sunday morning, the cicadas are chirruping like nobody’s business and there’s a pretty view overlooking a manicured garden, with denser creeping vines [...]
There’s something about the sequence of a weekend with a day tacked on, the preceding Friday or the following Monday, that just opens up a whole other world of possibility. So sure, that might make for getting to those errands you’ve never quite gotten to, an extra morning to sleep in or the chance to [...]
Surprise Friend Visits Are the Best Visits
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 [...]