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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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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We enjoyed a really nice weekend with my parents in Seattle for Thanksgiving, punctuated on Sunday by a rainy, windy run through the city in the Seattle Marathon. I got my first chance to engage in that age-old Dad tradition, watching a parade while your kid sits on your shoulders. It felt good. We enjoyed […]

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The L.A. Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon fit nicely into my training schedule, sandwiched between two 20 mile runs this month, so I signed up for it and hoped to get some good pacing practice out of it. I figured I wouldn’t try too hard, but of course, it’s a race, and I ended up […]

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We have a long family history in Colorado, but since Grandma passed away and dad’s childhood home was sold, we’ve had fewer reasons to return as a family. My dad’s high school reunion and the fact that Aimee and Grace hadn’t met much of our extended family in the area was a good excuse to […]

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It’s been a busy month so far, and a pleasant spring, with mild weather and productive, fun weekends. This past weekend, we started off on Friday night with dinner at Osteria Mozza, finally (thanks for the gift certificate from two years ago, Paul!), which was delicious – I had squid ink pasta with lobster and […]

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I’m now more than halfway done with my work here, though I’ve still got six days left in the trip. It’s been great so far, a really nice mix of work and fun; in fact, I’d go so far as to say this is really the way to do it. Work during the day, doing […]

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Well, 26.2 miles is a long way. I knew that before yesterday’s L.A. Marathon, but that fact of just how long became very clear to me somewhere after about mile 13. I spent the last six months training for the race, and ran two 20-mile training runs among all of the other miles I put […]

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The marathon is tomorrow, and all of my stuff is laid out and ready to go. I affixed my number to my shirt, and noticed that my age seems to have jumped to 49 overnight. Oh well – I’ll be happy to still be running marathons in 14 years… Here’s hoping for a cool day […]

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This morning called for a four-mile run, not really noteworthy, except for the fact that I hadn’t run only four miles since sometime in September of 2009, when I officially started training for the marathon. It’s tapering week, which feels good, though I still manage to feel winded when I’m done. The big day is […]

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As we enter a very busy month of March, a little catch-up on February before it slips away: it’s awards season, which has meant lots of screenings and some late nights of overtime. We also welcomed Caroline to L.A. from Austin, and enjoyed hanging out with her and Keith for dinner at Street as well […]

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Amidst all of the work in the run-up to the show and my ever-increasing marathon training as the big day (March 21, 38 days from today) approaches, I haven’t had a chance to reflect on the passage of another year — which is probably for the best. After our weekend in Palm Springs last week, […]

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I don’t think the 14 year-old me would recognize the life the 34 year-old me lives, for many reasons, but one I keep thinking about these days is my current relationship with the weather and the outdoors. I see snow once or twice a year now, if I’m lucky, whereas in the first 20 years […]

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I had planned on running along the riverfront path, but apparently it’s flooded. Which explains the street signs in the river.

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