Jack and I are often blown away by the creativity, thoughtfulness and generosity of our friends and family—we are so grateful to have such wonderful people in our lives. We try our best to return the favor, but it would be hard for us to top the masterpiece that a dear friend brought us on New Years Eve: an anatomically correct gingerbread rendition of […]
Category Archives: Shenanigans
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
This morning I had a chance to stop by a breakfast roundtable as part of Design Exchange Boston, a series of events taking place this week celebrating design. This morning’s session focused on design as a career, but the wisdom panelists shared was relevant beyond landing a job. Some favorites: As a designer, if you’re […]
Jack and I have been wandering about the eastern seaboard, visiting family and taking some time away from our myriad screens. We managed to fit in some golfing, some wine tasting, some basket weaving, some dominoes, some Oktoberfest, some hiking, and some other things, too. September is always a hectic month for us, and some […]
On Friday, Jack and I had a chance to attend talks at TEDxCambridge, focusing on local research and the Cantabrigian spirit. One of our favorite talks came from Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab and the people behind Immersion, a tool that allows you to map and manipulate your email metadata.
And we’re back. We packed our lives into 1,024 cubic feet, shipped it all off to storage, kept a few suitcases of necessary things for the next two months and moved ourselves into temporary space in JP complete with a friendly, fuzzy roommate. Thanks for your patience while we worked it all out! image credits: […]
With the first truck stuck under a Storrow Drive overpass this season, Boston’s peak moving week has officially arrived. And—even though we swore we’d never do it again—we’re in the thick of it. So it goes. We’ll be spending the week finishing up packing and moving our things into storage, and we hope you’ll pardon the radio silence. […]