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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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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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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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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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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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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We went on our first family trip as a foursome last weekend in anticipation of my birthday, a road trip to Palm Springs. While Lucy didn’t seem to love the car ride out there, Grace impressed us with her ability to sleep with a three month-old screaming at the top of her lungs next to […]

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While the main goal of my paternity leave was to bond with Lucy and help out with Grace, I also wanted to get a few projects done in the occasional downtime. Both were somewhat more complex woodworking projects than anything I’d done before, and both were essentially done from scratch, with all of the haphazard […]

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A couple of projects at work came together over the last few weeks that needed looking after in New York City, so I went for a few days last week. I had a chance to screen Showman with one of the film’s directors, Al Maysles, and also worked on packing up an animation collection. In […]

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Grace and I went on our first trip together without Mom, a long weekend in Anchorage with the grandparents. We had a great time, Grace did really well on the plane in both directions, and the weekend was a big success. Grace got to sit in Grandpa’s car, and I even got a chance to […]

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Before my trip to England and Wales gets too far into the rear view mirror, I’ll give a quick rundown of the highlights and some of the hundreds of photos I took. In a nutshell, it was a great, great trip. The Olympics were everything I had hoped for and more, the atmosphere in London […]

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