We’re enjoying the last day of our brief trip to Alaska today before we head to Seattle for Memorial Day Weekend tomorrow. Though both girls have been here before, in some ways this trip has felt like the first time they’ve really experienced the travel, the excitement, and the beauty of Alaska. It was Lucy’s […]

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After getting our house nicely staged and hoping to attract a buyer or two, we headed up to Anchorage to visit the family and attend my 20th high school reunion. It had been many years since I’d been in Alaska right on the solstice, and the super-long days take on an interesting new dimension when […]

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Grace and I went on our first trip together without Mom, a long weekend in Anchorage with the grandparents. We had a great time, Grace did really well on the plane in both directions, and the weekend was a big success. Grace got to sit in Grandpa’s car, and I even got a chance to […]

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We took Grace on her second trip to Alaska, and her first during the summer, over Labor Day Weekend. She had a good time seeing both my family and Aimee’s (visiting on vacation), and also discovered the world of stairs, since our house has none and my parents’ place has many. She took right to […]

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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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We’re in the middle of another brief, enjoyable trip to Alaska. We all ran the Snow City 5k this morning, and followed it up with a tasty lunch at the Moose’s Tooth. We’ve spent the rest of the time seeing the new sights around town – the Museum downtown, a new beer bar out our […]

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It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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I never thought I’d see Jeff Tweedy standing on a temporary stage in a parking lot, singing “Misunderstood” while looking wistfully off toward the Sears Mall and the BP tower, but there he was, last night, playing the band’s second ever show in Alaska. It has been raining almost continuously the whole weekend, and last […]

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Summer has officially begun: the season of travel and concerts. Yesterday morning, we returned from a three-day weekend in Alaska, last night I went to the first outdoor concert of the season, Arcade Fire at the Greek Theater, and tonight, I leave for New York and then Massachusetts for my tenth reunion. Our weekend in […]

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This past weekend, I had a brief but very enjoyable trip home to Anchorage. Aimee is still in Boston for her spring break, so I went back by myself, on the early flight to Anchorage via Seattle on Friday morning, getting in around 1:00 in the afternoon, and returning on the non-stop red-eye, leaving at […]

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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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It’s been awhile, almost three weeks, and it’s a little hard to get back into the swing. There’s more doing, less contemplating while on vacation, and now that I’m back in Cambridge, it’s more of the same old day to day, leaving time to go on and on about things, like the “Kerry=Hero” graffiti which […]

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My morning was spent performing the necessary evil that is the tax return, which, I’m embarassed to admit, was a first for me. Thanks to TurboTax, which was for the most part a really well-designed and problem-free web program, I took care of everything in a couple of hours. I’m not really sure I did […]

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Missions accomplished today: 1. Picked up the antique filing cabinet shipped from Denver at Pacific Alaska Forwarders, unpacked it, and set it up in Dad’s office. 2. Retrieved Dad’s Audi from storage at Classic Motion. 3. Unpacked and connected new dvd player as well as old speakers to the downstairs tv. 4. Installed Panther on […]

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