Category Archives: family & friends
The ones i love.
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The Big Move (Part 2: Packed In)August 12, 2009
So, my genius brother puzzle-pieced all of my furniture and boxes and bags into a solid 5′ x8′ x 16′ block — not more than a half inch of space in there anywhere that might allow for shifting or banging in transit. My photos really don’t do justice to it. My mattress was [...]
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The Big Move (Part 1: Packing Up)August 11, 2009
As remembered from two weeks and several gin & tonics distant…
So, here I sit in my parents’ kitchen in sunny Red Bank, NJ where it’s not the heat but the soul-crushing humidity that is giving me second thoughts about having given up my life in arid LA. The POD with all of my belongings [...] -
The Big Move (A Brief Forward)July 31, 2009
So, this will be brief, since it’s late and I have to be up early, but wanted to at least acknowledge the fact that I am, as I type this, in the midst of one of the largest life changes I’ve ever put myself through. I’m writing from a hotel room in Grand Junction, [...]
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Erin Go BraghMay 1, 2009
For almost twenty years, my family has been spending a week each August at a cabin on a lake in upstate New York — aka, the best place in the whole world. It’s the thing we all look forward to the rest of the year; it’s the one week we know we can all [...]
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An Event Apart, Chicago 2008 (part 1)October 12, 2008
So, on October 11, I hopped a flight to Chicago, a city that had long called to me, but which I had, somewhat inexplicably, never before visited, there to see the sites, meet the people, and attend An Event Apart, a conference about web design and designers of web content put on by the folks [...]
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Calexico at the Henry FondaSeptember 30, 2008
My good friends treated me to a night out last night, to see one of my favorite bands at the Henry Fonda Theater up on Hollywood Boulevard, which is one of my favorite venues. It’s small, the sound guys aren’t out to make your eardrums bleed, and there’s a lovely rooftop cocktail-garden if you [...]
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Aww.August 27, 2008
Sometimes, little brothers are the best.
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Another YearAugust 3, 2008
Another excellent week at the lake — grab-bag weather with sun, showers, thunder, chill, heat — lots of swimming, reading, lazing around and getting three big squares a day. Highlights this year included Heidi’s muscle-shirt apparatus (engineered by Bob to protect her bad toe), meeting Oscar Rossi for the first time (Too. Cute.), and [...]
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Jiggity JigJune 4, 2008
I’m back state-side again, and still a bit too sick and jet-lagged to process the experience properly into an entry here, but I get a little of my energy back every day, so perhaps this weekend I can break it all down. Until then, enjoy some pictures, won’t you?
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The rain in SpainMay 27, 2008
…may stay mainly on the plain, but the rain in France seems to hover over the mountains here in the Ardèche. It has been raining more or less solidly since I arrived on Friday evening, and there is no hope in sight. We’ve enjoyed about three or four hours without pelting precipitation in [...]
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So much to do, so little time…May 20, 2008
Somehow, it’s all happening this week. A birthday lunch yesterday turned into an impromptu afternoon at Six Flags, riding roller coasters and getting drenched in the flume ride (which, in the 95+ degree heat, was just fine), and then segued into an evening spent not doing any of the tasks I had set myself [...]
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Je vais en France!February 22, 2008
Well, the tickets are booked, I sent in my passport renewal app last Friday, and now I just need to learn à parler en français…
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France in SpringtimeFebruary 20, 2008
I’m scouting airfare for a trip to France this May, to visit my college roommate, who lives in the Ardeche region. Anyone know any tricks to getting good fares to Lyon?
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Red CarpetNovember 23, 2007
The paparazzi won’t leave me and my girls alone…