CBC Keynote speech

Spring is coming!  As evidenced by these adorable baby lambs we got to go visit the other day.  My friend Kara is friends with the nicest farmer, and he let all our kids come hold his newborn lambs.  Halle soaked up every minute of it.  I’m pretty sure she was devising a way to sneak…

“By the rude bridge that arched the food, Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”                                      –Ralph Waldo Emerson Walden Pond “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see…

Well, Boston got a post every few days, so I guess the rest of the summer deserves a post too 🙂  It’s been non-stop fun around here.  Boo for school starting.  Here are some of our favorite days: We enjoyed many a magical sunset in the backyard. Played lots and lots of Animal Town with…

“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!” –Charles Dickens “When Rick Steve said you can’t do all of Paris in just a few days, he’d obviously never traveled with Tara,” said Rusty after spending a few whirlwind days in Paris.  The EuroStar is amazing and…

Oh NYC—how I love all your delicious restaurants.  And all your delicious treats.  Please don’t make me leave!  Restaurant week was going on during our last weeks in the city.  It’s a chance to try all the fun, fancy restaurants that are normally out of our budgetary reach 🙂  I have been listening to “Rules…