andrew on June 17th, 2009

At the end of March, I met my friend Sean in Amsterdam.  It had been quite a while since we’d last seen each other, but we had a great time exploring this fascinating city.

The Van Gogh museum had an excellent exhibit of his evening and nighttime scenes, reflecting his view of the dark hours as [...]

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andrew on August 29th, 2008

The kids have been avid bikers the last couple of weeks.  We brought the bikes along to Yorkshire last weekend and Sage had a blast zooming through the campground.  The field where we pitched the tent was very soggy and had turned to mud, but that didn’t stop her from hopping on her bike as [...]

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andrew on March 5th, 2008

I’ve been biking whenever I can recently and I decided I needed an ankle strap to keep my pants trousers out of the chain grease.
I came up with this solution:

We have a large stash of Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran that I hope someday will turn into a sweater. So now I have a merino/silk/cashmere [...]

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andrew on February 28th, 2008

After three days, the girls are still very excited about school. They seem elated and eagerly share details about their day. When they get up in the morning, they’re enthusiastic to get going. So far, I’m pleased with the transition.
The earthquake Wednesday night shook us awake. At first it seemed like [...]

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