And so my fearsome November has come to an end. It began with the marathon, which seems like it was about a year ago now, and featured travel on four of the five weekends during the month. The day after we returned from New York, I headed to Richmond, Virginia, for the AMIA Conference and […]

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It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for ten years here now, off and on. The first entry would hardly warrant a tweet these days, and I’ve certainly slacked off in the last few years with the arrival of the kids, for various reasons, but I’ve had a few good stretches over the years, and […]

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Alright, New York City Marathon. I trained for you in California, when moving east wasn’t even on our minds. I trained for you in Alaska, when I ran a half-marathon and speed-walked up a mountain. I trained for you in Massachusetts, in Rhode Island, in Vermont, and in Connecticut. Through the birth of our second […]

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I didn’t necessarily think choosing to run the New York City Marathon this year was the best idea I’d ever had, but I didn’t realize now ill-timed it would turn out to be. Packing up and selling a house, moving across the country, sleeping in the same room as a baby who doesn’t sleep, starting […]

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After three months, we finally completed the second stage of our major, two-stage cross-country move this week. Back in July, we packed up the house in L.A. and had everything moved to Aimee’s parents’ place in Rhode Island, where it sat in the garage as we searched for a house in New Haven and surroundings. […]

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I ran four miles on Sunday, which I normally wouldn’t be excited about, especially since my marathon training schedule had me down for 17 that day. We’re now nine weeks from the New York City Marathon, and I’m running without pain (fingers crossed) for the first time since the spring. Over the last few months, […]

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And just like that, it’s been a month since I started work. The first days on the job were a blur of hot and humid weather, endless hours spent getting to know the history of everything that ever happened, good and bad, at work, plus various meetings, orientations, and HR-related chores. I spent pretty much […]

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Perhaps the best thing about living in Connecticut my first time around was its proximity to New York City, and while I lived here in the late ’90s, I spent a lot of time on the Metro North back and forth between Greenwich and Grand Central. We’re not quite as close to the city this […]

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Capping off a very busy month (finishing work, packing up the house, getting it listed for sale, two trips to Alaska), we headed east this week. With our one-way tickets and our five checked bags, we flew from LAX to Boston and had a lovely welcome breakfast at Aimee’s parents’ place. It still felt like […]

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We returned to Alaska for the second time in two weeks in early July; it was also the second time in a year, Grace and I traveled there together, just the two of us, to visit Nana and Grandpa. While the main point of the trip was Mt. Marathon, we did have time to do […]

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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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It was just two summers ago that it arrived here, but the photobooth in our backyard has been an important and much-loved part of the house. It also requires a little more special attention than the rest of our stuff, and last night, Jeff, Keith, Eric, and I tackled getting it out of the shed, […]

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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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For the better part of the last year, the possibility of moving back to the East Coast has been in the air at our house. I applied for a position at Yale University back in July, 2012, and over the last few months, beginning in January, I worked my way through the interview process, finishing […]

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