At a certain point in an already very busy travel year, when the opportunity came along to tack on another trip to Europe, it felt like one more trip didn’t make much difference. I was glad to be able to accept the invitation of the Budapest Classics Marathon, a festival of preserved and classic film, […]

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After months of daily Duolingo practice, making a wish-list of things to see and do, and generally getting really excited about it, we finally set off for our long-awaited family trip to Germany. Everyone had a great time, and aside from having my wallet stolen on day one, everything else worked out, from our wonderful […]

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Chester, not far from Essex and from Gillette Castle, which we visited a few years back, one the eastern side of that great empty spot in the middle of Connecticut, and both northern (15) and southern (95) routes seem to get you there just as quickly. With my typical lack of advance planning, I was […]

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We returned, two years after our first time, to Solid Sound at MASS MoCA this weekend. The girls had a great time again, and had even more to do this time than in 2017. It’s the perfect mix of music, art, crafts, and food, and with so much going on that there’s something for everyone. […]

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It’s been a pretty slow year for races so far; I’ve only run two and it’s already the middle of June. With the girls away for the weekend, I snuck this one in, in Essex, where I’d been before for the Santa train when we first moved here. It was a nice, small town race, […]

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2019 has been a busy year, to say the least. Beginning in March, I was traveling every few weeks, which left precious little time for weekend races. If I wasn’t out of town, I was making sure I was actually present at home, rather than taking half a weekend day out to run. I didn’t […]

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A planned trip to Vienna for a conference in early June made me wonder if this would be an opportune time for a long-awaited visit to the beaches of Normandy. The timing—on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion—seemed right, and my dad accepted my invitation to come along. We had a great time touring […]

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My first international trip in a year that promises to have more than a few brought me to Switzerland for the annual FIAF Congress. I landed in Zürich and then made my way down through Lucerne, where I’d never been before, and finally to Lausanne. Funiculars, cinemas, photobooths, and chocolate; not a bad way to […]

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