Halloween 1980, standing in front of the fireplace in our house downtown, dressed as the Lone Ranger, of course. By the next Halloween, we will have moved to the Hillside, and our days of neighborhood trick-or-treating would be over. This photo looks like a Polaroid but is actually taken with one of Kodak’s instant cameras, […]

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The year is 1979. The place is the bedroom Scott and I shared in our house on H Street. I’m sporting a classy cowboy shirt undoubtedly bought by Dad on a trip to Denver, and I’m showing off a cool walkie-talkie that was a prized possession. On the bookshelf, you can see some of our […]

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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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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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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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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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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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I regret not making an effort to see Endeavour as she made her way slowly through the streets of Los Angeles earlier this year, but we finally went to see her in person at the California Science Center. Numerous times since we visited, Grace has asked Aimee, “Did you know she saw the REAL Space […]

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Our family trip to Venice was a great success. We celebrated Steve’s 80th birthday in grand style, and Lucy, less than six months old, flew on a plane for the first time. Grace loved the combination of gondolas, pasta, and gelato, and it was a real treat to have my parents there as well as […]

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