We had a few reliable holiday traditions growing up: glögg and Swedish songs at Christmas, fondue for New Years, and Mt. Marathon in Seward for the Fourth of July. While we’ve been able to recreate the edible ones after I moved from Alaska, it’s impossible to duplicate the experience of small-town Seward on race day. […]

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Part of the reason for taking advantage of California’s paternity leave again at this point in the year was so we could take Grace home for the holidays to each of our homes. We won’t be doing this every year, but we thought it would be nice to do it once. We started off with […]

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I don’t think the 14 year-old me would recognize the life the 34 year-old me lives, for many reasons, but one I keep thinking about these days is my current relationship with the weather and the outdoors. I see snow once or twice a year now, if I’m lucky, whereas in the first 20 years […]

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Two and a half days is somehow both a long time and a very short time to be somewhere. Aimee and I found this out this weekend, when we traveled to Alaska to enjoy our three-day weekend with my folks amidst the snow and cold and cozy warmth of home. We enjoyedsome entertainment from Alaska […]

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I kept telling everyone I saw that everything would have been nicer with snow; I guess I should have qualified that statement and specified exactly when I’d like my snow to fall. Before, during, and after we were supposed to leave Boston for Anchorage would not have been my choices, but as it happened, our […]

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