Kendall is marriedLydia Rose Sussman is bornCambridge soccer starts for GraceListened to The Audacity of Hope and read Here if You Need MeJack Scully is christenedGrace paints a version of Monet’s Giverny bridge which I frame for my motherCelebrate Easter in MarionSage Arlington McCoy is born Email this post
Grace spends a week in Florida with her grandparentsChristina and I drive to NYC for 24 hours with KendallWhit and I attend Colin Dhaliwal’s pizza making partyI have fabulous trip to CaliforniaEaster in MarionWhit’s first dentist appointmentGrace and I have first volunteer experience at Cradles to Crayons Email this post
Grace projectile vomits as I am leaving for New York for 3 daysI read Loving FrankVote for Obama in the primaryWhit starts taking his pullup off at night and peeing himself, leading me to contemplate drastic measuresGrace hits me with the birds and bees questionGrace and I host a Cooking with Amy class for Hayden, [...]
Grace starts to ski at Nashoba ValleyWhit turns 3 and celebrates with a party with Silly WillyWilliam Perry Reinhardt Block is bornI listen to Mountains Beyond Mountains and read The Middle PlaceI break my toeI listen to Eddie Vedder’s song from the “Into the Wild” soundtrack, Guaranteed, nonstopI have a great work trip to London [...]
Favorite books: Anathem (Neil Stephenson), Here if You Need Me (Anne Braestrup), Gilead (Marilynne Robinson), Snow Crash (Neil Stephenson) Favorite music: Juno soundtrack, Waiting for My Real Life to Begin (Colin James Hay), anything by Ray Lamontagne, Daughter (Loudon Wainwright), the Weepies, Afraid of Heights (Espen Lind), Little Wonders (Rob Thomas), American Prayer (Dave Stewart) [...]
I am welling over this New Year’s Eve day, full of feelings that are as inarticulate as they are powerful. I feel skinless and sad and a little bit buffeted by all the things in my heart. Time is passing and I am still not able to live in it the way I wish I [...]
These two are really starting to be friends. Today Grace convinced Whit to jump into the pool for the first time, his condition being that he wanted to hold her hand as he did so. Email this post
Reporting from Bonita Springs. It is hot and sunny. Matt is playing a lot of golf and Grace, Whit and I are doing a lot of playing. That is to say: biking, swimming, riding the elevator up and down, eating PB&J, watching movies. Am about to finish an excellent book of short stories by Ursula [...]
