Thanks to some thoughtful planning on the part of the FIAF Secretariat, I was able to painlessly combine my already planned trip west for the AMIA Conference in Portland with the somewhat unexpected and definitely financially unforeseen trip to the EC Meeting in Los Angeles, held over the two days prior to AMIA. It was […]

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Our quick trip to Portland last weekend had an itinerary that felt like a kid-friendly version of the New York Times travel column: ride the streetcar, find the fountains (like the one Grace, in her bee suit, is pondering above) and playgrounds, visit the kids’ section at Powell’s, and order something with avocado in it […]

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Finishing up the 1997 road trip arc is Oregon, a state I’d visited before the trip, and a state I thought for a long time I’d end up living in “when I grow up.” Oregon, and Portland specifically, seemed like a good mix of Alaska-like Pacific Northwestern-ness, with a healthy dose of cosmopolitanism. The city […]

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It’s been radio silence on the blog for a few weeks after the move and the trip to Portland. Now we’re back in town, getting settled in, and wondering why we still have no internet at home. I’ve been rendered speechless by frustration at Time Warner, and when Aimee says she feels the same way, […]

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It’s been awhile, almost three weeks, and it’s a little hard to get back into the swing. There’s more doing, less contemplating while on vacation, and now that I’m back in Cambridge, it’s more of the same old day to day, leaving time to go on and on about things, like the “Kerry=Hero” graffiti which […]

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As the inaugural post in my “Portland” category, I offer the following thoughts: I think it’s pretty great that in yesterday’s mayoral primary (in which the guy who limited contributions to his campaign to $25 got 41% of the vote, while the guy who raised a million dollars only got only 37%), candidates named “David […]

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