Just for fun
An odd thing happens when you keep a blog. Because I know people read it (all 10 of you!) or maybe because I’ve made a commitment to myself to document our life when I don’t write at least once a week (and even that is on the thin side), I start to feel bad. When…
I’m not gonna lie, I’m actively trying to turn Evie and Jack into scientists. (Nate doesn’t need to be guided, he’s clearly a natural engineer. I may not consider myself to be a real engineer, but I have enough experience to know one when I see one.) If they don’t actually become scientists in the traditional…
I like to try to make connections between what’s going on and what we’re feeling. If I had to make a best guess, I’d say our last year was all about strangling every last second of fun out of every single day. (We did.) We thought we only had a year. June was all about…
Scott and I are 2 of the luckiest people alive. Seriously. Both of us, through luck and willpower, know what it feels like to have a deep passion about something we’ve worked on. Work was my first love. I named my job Charlie and he and I have been inseparable. Even on bad days, things…
What do you do in Maine just before the 4th of July? Go strawberry picking. After having been in California, I get that this may not seem as exciting to our west coast brothers and sisters. Out there fruit seems to be perpetually available – ripe and delicious (although… like everything else in California… not…
