This undated Polacolor print was taken in the fall of 1978 at the Anchorage Co-op Preschool, where I would spend the next two years under the tutelage of the legendary Teacher Sally. This looks like a first day of school photo, as I’ve got a name tag on, but who knows. I don’t remember a […]

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Oh, the Indian corn props at the JC Penney Portrait studio in downtown Anchorage; at least that’s where I assume this photo was taken, in the fall of 1977.

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Thanks to Kodak’s old-school metadata, an ink label rubber stamped on the back of the print, I know this photo was taken (or at least developed) in July, 1976, when I was one and a half. I chose it mostly because of the fence in the background, and its two-tone green aluminum privacy slats, as […]

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My birthday is just over a month into the new year, so now that Christmas is behind us, my mind has fully turned to the somewhat dreaded occasion of my fortieth birthday. It’s now only 40 days away, so it seemed like a good occasion for little review. It’s hard to believe I’m about to […]

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We spent Christmas with Aimee’s family in Rhode Island, and enjoyed a leisurely few days of relaxation, good food, movies, and hanging out. I hadn’t been to Newport in awhile, and I hadn’t been to any of the mansions in at least ten years. Aimee and the girls and I visited Marble House, decorated for […]

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Despite the lack of snow this year, we’re getting in the holiday spirit with some of our other family traditions. My parents’ Thanksgiving/early Christmas visit was a good occasion for brewing the first batch of gløgg of the season. Grace even helped out a little this time, though it’ll be awhile before she can sample […]

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My folks came out for Thanksgiving and an early Christmas this year, and we had a great time both at home and exploring New Haven and surroundings. My parents and Grace and I went to Gillette Castle, the elaborate, ornate, and very idiosyncratic home of William Gillette, the legendary Sherlockian actor. We picked up a […]

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Despite what we’ve all been used to for the past fifty years, Paul McCartney won’t be around forever, and during his past few tours, I’ve thought of trying to catch a show, but it never worked out. I didn’t want to miss another opportunity, so this week, I drove up to Albany to catch the […]

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After the race, we headed back to meet up with Aimee and the kids at her family’s place in Wellesley. Dad and I visited a surprisingly big auto show in town, and I took some photos of various badges, plates, and other insignia. see the whole set here

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Yes, it’s only one hill, but that’s some hill. The race is over now, and I’m happy to say I survived, and had a great time (in the sense that I enjoyed myself, not that I finished competitively). Coming into the race, I was familiar with the course, having driven it before, but I’d never […]

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Nearly a year ago, a week before we moved east, I finally had the chance to run Mt. Marathon, the Alaskan mountain race. It was a lot of fun, and fulfilled a long-held dream of mine, as we’d watched Dad run the race so many times as we grew up. The other big mountain race […]

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On exciting thing about working in a new film archive is that I get the opportunity to represent the institution at some national and international events, the most interesting of which is probably the International Federation of Film Archives annual Congress, or FIAF. This year, it was held in Skopje, Macedonia, an intriguing destination about […]

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My absence on the blog is just one manifestation of the incredibly long winter we’ve had here, a lovely welcome back to the East Coast for us. With Abby and David in Sewanee for perhaps only this year, we wanted to take our opportunity to visit when we could. So, we flew to Nashville and […]

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We’ve returned from a week in Alaska, and have just said goodbye to our New Year’s party guests, so we haven’t had much time to reflect on the past year, busy blur that it was. We’ve made a lot of changes in the last twelve months, and though I can’t say I’m sad to see […]

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