if, while on vacation in France, you buy a jar of delicious acacia honey, make sure to wrap the jar in a plastic bag before packing it into your suitcase ( Read more... )

Kenny is very very very sick.  I am packing now for an early AM flight to Denver.

There are too many things to say.  Updates as I can manage them.

After one of those epically long travel experiences in which you miss your connection and they change your flight multiple times and then lose your luggage, we are home in Boston.  (We were supposed to get in Sunday late evening, actually got in last night just before 7.  Two of our three missing bags are supposed to be delivered to us later this ( Read more... )

As faithful readers may know, Aatish and I are leaving for India to week from today. (I feel like, really, that previous sentence should be All in Caps, Followed by Many Exclamation Points, but You Get the Idea ( Read more... )

I've been in Colorado for about 45 hours now and this is the first chance I've really had to sit down and post ( Read more... )

Can anybody pick Tish and I up from Logan this coming Tuesday, April 13, around 7pm? We would be happy to return the favor at some point...

Tish and i returned safely to Boston last night, and today we are happy and predictably jet-lagged.  Stories and pictures will follow shortly--i meant to post while we were away but was having too much fun to take the time to try and find internet ( Read more... )

I've been married for 8 days now.  A week ago my mother and grandmother and aunt left.  Last Wednesday Megan and Martin left and suddenly it was just Tish and I again.  In 4.5 hours we leave for the airport to go on our honeymoon.  We'll get into Paris about noon tomorrow, and then on Saturday we take the train to Marseille to spend a week in ( Read more... )

I am having an irrationally strong response today to the fact that I neither wrote my 100 words or engaged in my Winter Feast practice yesterday.  I am also struggling with putting the last pieces of my chapter draft into anything like a coherent form.  My jaw is tight from trying to force myself to concentrate.  Taken all together, it feels in my ( Read more... )

In his continuing quest to be the most awesome and actively supportive partner of a dissertator in the whole history of the world, Aatish bought he and I really good tickets to the NYC production of Equus for this weekend, the one starring Daniel Radcliffe (aka, Harry Potter), Richard Griffiths, and Kate Mulgrew, aka Capt. Jayneway from StarTrek: ( Read more... )