For many years now we’ve made an effort to take our kids to at least one baseball game per season at Boston’s Fenway Park, preferably with all four of us as a family. This hasn’t generally been too hard as my dad and I have shared season tickets for the Red Sox since 1987, just…
We are childless! Well, for a week anyway. Jen and I just got home yesterday afternoon from delivering the boys into the nurturing clutches of my extended family at their summer base on the outer part Cape Cod. We spent a few days down there ourselves cavorting with my sister (read: getting my ass kicked…
I think the last eight days mark the first time since this blog started in August of 2010 that I have gone more than a week without a post. Now I’d love to tell you that it’s because of a long and sustained period of trial and tribulations and that the blisters on my fingers…
We’re actually away for a couple of nights in Montreal, Quebec seeing U2 (yes, again) in this most European of North American cities. Last night we took our kids to see and hear the band whose music, I in particular, have subjected them to ever since they were born. Though getting to bed around midnight…
We just spent all of last week with our kids on a small ship touring the Galapagos Islands, bookended by nights in the Ecuadorian cities of Guayaquil and Quito. Quite a trip! There is literally nothing quite like the Galapagos anywhere else in the world. The opportunity to see so many species (many of which…
Just got home late yesterday morning and hit the ground running. The females in the due group apparently were waiting to have their head-midwife nearby before letting the flood gates open as we had two crias born just while we were in route home from Boston, then another came this AM too. It’s good to…
