So many things going on. This'll be a long one.

Falcon RidgeOur flight landed in Newark at 5am on Wednesday. We hadn't slept much, and desperately needed to catch up on snoozes before the drive up to Hillsdale, so we picked up our rental car and came into Brooklyn to nap in my brother's apartment. We got up and got on the move around noon, ( Read more... )

My friend Stuart passed away this morning. He had been diagnosed with an incurable lung cancer about 3 years ago. Not unexpected, not any less heartbreaking ( Read more... )

I had a lot of fun hanging out with Nina at Falcon Ridge this year. She's almost 3, and I had just seen her a few months prior on their visit to Portland, so I was one of the Shantytowners she most recognized and gravitated to. I love being the grownup that the kids want ( Read more... )

One of my fellow Shantytowners told me to cancel my rental car because it would be easy for her to pick me up at the airport and drive me to and from the Hill on the days that I plan to travel. So that saved me $300. Then I was talking logistics with her tonight and she asked me how much stuff I'd have and when I started mentioning my gear she was ( Read more... )

We knew it was coming, but now that their breakup is official, it feels right to reflect on what Girlyman has meant to me for the past ten years ( Read more... )

My cruise leaves tomorrow, then I'll be offline for a week. I'll catch up on what I miss when I have time, but if anything happens that I should know about right away, um, I guess, tough shit ( Read more... )

Hey look I have some free time! Guess I'll write a bit about Falcon Ridge ( Read more... )

I've explained before that I am named after my mom's two favorite literary characters, Meg and Beth from Little Women. I've always identified with this story very much, but really I'm much more like the other two girls, Jo and Amy. Jo, the tomboyish writer and adventurer, Amy the vain flirt and world traveler. I'm ashamed that I remember the movie ( Read more... )

The following is not a New Year's resolution, just another personal endeavor that happens to coincide with the turn of the calendar ( Read more... )

I took what I felt at the time was a very necessary 3-hour nap this afternoon.  But now that it's midnight, I'm wide awake, so I think what really happened is that I just got an advance on tonight's sleep, and now I won't be able to snooze for a few more hours.  Oh well...I watched all the Olympic excitement tonight, and it was exciting even though ( Read more... )