Entries from December 2010

Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2010 · Comments Off on Happy New Year!

‘Nuff said.

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Tags: Los Angeles · Noted

The blizzard that was, and wasn’t

December 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

We woke up this morning expecting two feet of drifting snow, thanks to the non-stop doomsayers on the local news, but in the end, the storm didn’t bring quite as much as we thought it might, and the chaos it created seemed to be at a minimum. Whether or not we’ll get out of Logan […]

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Tags: Photos · Travel

Where the weather is the news, 2010 edition

December 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on Where the weather is the news, 2010 edition

Back in 2003, when we lived in Boston, we enjoyed a snowstorm or two, and today, we’re enjoying another good old-fashioned Stormageddon™. And by enjoying, I mean marveling at the ST7RM CENTER Doppler radar coverage and hyperbole and driving school closures and poor meteorologists stuck out in grocery store parking lots reporting live. We had […]

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Tags: Cambridge · Nostalgia · Travel

Small towns of L.A.

December 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on Small towns of L.A.

A few months ago, I picked up a copy of Los Angeles Magazine featuring a piece on the “small towns” of Los Angeles, which we thought would make good destinations for day trips while I’m on leave. For our first trip, at the end of November, we visited Calabasas, where we wandered the farmers’ market […]

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Tags: Los Angeles · Travel

Early Christmas

December 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on Early Christmas

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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Tags: Alaska · Photobooths · Travel