My fourth and final trip to Alaska this year was another brief one, from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, to help my dad celebrate an award he received from the Alaska Conservation Foundation on Friday night. It was an evening filled with inspiring stories about people going above and beyond to help preserve wild places, […]

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I watched the game and the final day festivities this morning, and it’s sad to see the place go. It was the home of my first major league baseball experience, and the park where I’ve seen the most games. I never saw a playoff game there, but those years I was living in Connecticut – […]

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Just finished a nice five-mile hike through the lush forests around Girdwood. Beautiful trees, nice views of the rushing Winner Creek, and the terrific fall colors.

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It almost felt a little crisp out on Friday morning, though when Aimee and I went hiking today, it was anything but chilly, so I guess calling summer over is a bit premature. We’ve been keeping busy, but happy to have a little more down time these days than during our hectic summer. Aimee had […]

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I stopped by Opening Ceremony tonight before the Jon Brion/Nels Cline show that’s about to start, and checked out their Lego room. I don’t really know what to do with myself in a place like that, with clothes too expensive for me to even look at, and rooms whose gender emphasis I’m surely misinterpreting, leading […]

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Instead of watching another speech, I went to the Obama HQ opening in Culver City. Much more inspiring. On second thought, maybe I would have been inspired by the speech…to get out the door and got to the Obama HQ. Oh well.

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I spent Friday fielding questions about Gov. Palin at work; my office mate is from Delaware, so our room is VP Central. What a bizarre turn of events, seemingly getting more bizarre by the hour. We had a quiet Friday night, catching up on some more episodes of Mad Men, which gets better with each […]

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