If you’ve visited in the last six months or so, chances are Matt and I took you to Bangkok 54. We rarely go a month without visiting this place, our favorite Thai restaurant in the D.C. area.
We almost always start with curry puffs, and try one of the fun cocktails they make with crushed fresh [...]
Allegra and I rapidly read the last Harry Potter this past weekend – once it arrived Saturday around 2pm, I continued to give Allegra the evil eye and saying things like “Done yet?!?” until she finished the book after reading all day Saturday and a bit Sunday morning. Of course, I started in right [...]
While waiting for my Harry Potter to be delivered, I thought I would blog about old news, since I’m abstaining from new news until I’ve made it through 652 pages. [Update: The Amazon record I looked at was incorrect. I actually consumed 759 pages.]
This week I finally found a reason for my cavalier attitude toward [...]
If you are an English major lost in a corporate world that doesn’t value your vast knowledge of British literature, looking for a way to return to your college glory days (when “work” meant reading Gulliver’s Travels or Wuthering Heights), and want to do so in a way that is easy and can be done [...]
Allegra loves to travel. I love to travel. This works well for us.
We decided to create a travel page celebrating our love of travel. It shows the states in the US we’ve been to (combined, 38) as well as countries in the world we’ve visited.
We promise the world maps will [...]
This is the only day of the year you will hear me utter the words: “I hope it doesn’t rain.” Because on this day, I like fireworks more than I like rain… and you know I like a good rainstorm.
If you have been to our house, you probably didn’t notice our “view” of the Washington [...]
I finally recovered from too many time zone changes for one month (was I on Kansas time last week?) and pulled together photos from our California trip. Big versions of these highlights are up in our new photo gallery.
Please excuse the mess–changing the whole filing and uploading structure is taking much longer as expected… which, [...]