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As members of the Essex County Greenbelt, a local conservation organization, we received their email announcement about the Run for the Hills Trail Race at the Pingree Reservation. It sounded like a pretty fun way to spend a Saturday morning so we signed up. This was a fun race for us, no pace calculations or […]

This Saturday we tackled our first 4000 foot peak of the season. Since I had gone to the Red Sox game the night before, we didn’t even try to get an early start. Sometimes it is nice to linger over coffee, catch up on sleep, and roll up to NH at our leisure. We set […]

Once we decided to put our house on the market, life changed a bit. Suddenly we wanted all those little projects we’d been putting off to have been done last year. We immediately started cleaning and de-cluttering the first floor, and made a list of things we needed to do. The first weekend we completely […]

For years we’ve been considering a kitchen and bathroom renovation. When a key benefit of staying in a hotel is the ability to shower without water blasting Beej right on top of his head, you start thinking about ways to make it an every day occurrence. Our kitchen counters are well worn, and the cabinets […]

We traveled to St. Marys, Ohio for their annual Arbor Day tree planting this year. It was time to plant a White Oak for Grandma just across the parking lot from Grandpa’s tree. As in past years, there was a class of little kids who arrived to help. We raked the mulch around Grandma’s tree. […]

I’ve been keeping up the reading this spring, despite being on a bit of a book club hiatus. I finished The Secret Handshake by Kathleen Kelley Reardon, a recommendation from a colleague who runs the Women’s Forum at work for our sector. It was practical and instructive, without being preachy. It’s one that I’ll definitely […]

I’m ready to say that spring is here. Sure, the crocuses started blooming a few weeks ago, but it can also snow in April. Beej and I decided to take a minor short cut into spring and visit Washington, DC for a long weekend. We were missing the Kennealy crew, flights to DC were pretty […]

My first observation is that blogging about books is really motivating my consumption! I have four more books to blog about before the official end of March. I liked Exuberance – it was a bit belabored, but followed a number of interesting people and their enthusiasm for discovery. It inspired me to focus more on […]

This year’s event was intentionally different than last year. First off, I ran half as many miles in the two months leading up to the event, in large part due to snow that encouraged snowshoeing and prevented safe running, as well as work demands on my schedule; I was definitely not out for a PR […]

For February our book club selected a book off the 100 best novels list, Day of the Locust by Nathanael West. It was odd, the characters more like caricatures and several disturbingly described scenes (a cock fight and a mob where a young boy is killed). I admit I didn’t much care for it, but […]