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highlight of the summer 23 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
We didn’t take one big, long summer vacation this year. Instead, we had many long-weekend visitors, and took a few weekend trips of our own. In some ways, it made the summer feel like one big long v...
the grass over here 16 Aug 2013 | 01:19 am
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this, but since we moved to Seattle, I’ve been working from home. The situation is a little odd—my colleauges are all in Chicago and my daughter naps in the room right next do...
for the picking 9 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
If you walk out our front door and take a right, the road quickly dead-ends into a street that climbs a steep hill, wide enough for only one car to pass, with houses on one side and a thick wall of tr...
impossibly glad 31 Jul 2013 | 11:36 pm
Avery will be one year old on Friday, and it’s got me feeling very reflective. I think back over the past 12 months, and I remember days that felt like they lasted for weeks, and weeks that flashed b...
a summer to live 26 Jul 2013 | 02:42 am
I’ll keep this quick, because, at the moment, there’s a summer to live. There are wading pools to splash in, lemonades to sip, ice creams to scoop, sunsets to watch, and tents to pitch (this weekend!...
the rituals that emerge 18 Jul 2013 | 03:49 am
Avery and I have a new Friday afternoon tradition, almost too new to warrant that name. But for a few weeks now, after I’m done with work and Avery’s up from her afternoon nap, and before Kevin gets h...
never end 10 Jul 2013 | 09:56 pm
One of the worst parts about growing up is the end of Summer Vacation. Summer as an adult is, of course, still wonderful, but the very best parts—the parts with grill smoke and popsicles and fire fli...
like summer should taste 20 Jun 2013 | 08:56 pm
In some ways, Seattle reminds me of the small town in northern Minnesota where my parents grew up and where my grandparents still live. Their town sits on the edge of Lake Superior, at a place where ...
to fix that 12 Jun 2013 | 06:36 pm
During the year or two when I wasn’t posting much here, I noticed a change in my cooking. It was less adventurous, which was likely at least in part a byproduct of the general life chaos that also re...
a place that you know 6 Jun 2013 | 12:51 am
I walked to the dry cleaners yesterday, which was a hot, sunny day in Seattle, a city that people say rarely sees the sun and never gets hot, so I may be breaking some kind of let’s-keep-this-our-litt...
