Happy New Year! We’ve been working on some site updates, recovering from snow and celebration (haven’t we all), and have been more than willing to say “good riddance” to 2013. Nonetheless, a recap is in order: with one last glance over our shoulder, here’s a peek back to our most popular posts of the past year. […]
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As we finalize this our holiday card designs (last-minute, yes, because house) we’ve been thinking festive thoughts. Giant wall confetti caught my eye initially as a potential photo booth backdrop that would be inexpensive and exceedingly simple. (I resisted the urge to buy stacks of confetti wands—you’re welcome, Jack.) It was a scroll past Elizabeth’s pin […]
When I packed up from my small hometown in rural PA and headed to Boston for college, my grandmother quipped (with only the best intentions very early in her dementia) that it was the beginning of the end of me. Leaving the town that houses the majority of my family, then and every visit since, is […]
We’re still working through some red tape with the house (and I still haven’t had a spare moment to get photos off the camera), but even as we move slowly forward, a common theme has emerged throughout the process. Having nearly lost our minds navigating the pitfalls and bureaucracy of buying a multi-family home in […]
We’re alive! After a whole week out of work and in the house doing work, we still have spotty internet, unfinished paint, piles of boxes and a peeling bathroom ceiling – but the house deal that has been stressing us out since July, what with the transient living and the ups and the downs, has […]
When my cousin moved to Boston in August to start a stint at the SMFA, it was exciting to welcome a fellow Kutztownian to my adopted home, and to discover that we share a preference for dark beer; I have to admit that I didn’t realize the level at which he was working. Since then, Jack and […]
If I’m honest, the past few months have been middling, at best. Work is busy, home is busy, UJC is busy, and it’s election season; the house hits just kept coming, and though we’ve spent some lovely time with friends this fall, there’s been a lot of stress. But we’re nearing the end (of this […]
We’re (hopefully) heading into our last few weeks of transient living, though the end of the process has been as rocky as the start. One way or another, the house hunt will come to a close, soon. Thank goodness. If things seem sparse around here, I assure you that’s why; hopefully UJC life, too, will settle […]
Jack and my father play the same game, naming the song artist, title and (if possible) album of every bit of music they encounter. I am abysmal at this game, and have been my whole life; when I haven’t the slightest clue, Jack insists—despite my protestations—on giving me clever, cryptic, pun-laden hints until I catch up. […]
Where exactly this week went, I’m not sure. Last night, Jack and I had a chance to check out the launch of the Kensington, a residential building in Boston’s former “combat zone.” I don’t think tower living is for us, but the views sure can’t be beat, and the event—and the space and staff—were fantastic. Be […]