Reading books by RSS

When my day’s research is all 9/11 lawsuits and Virginia Tech fallout, without a presidential candidate spousal spat to lighten things up, it’s a relief to open Google Reader at lunch and check in with the Bennett family.

How does one knock out a little Pride & Prejudice (or Dracula or Frankenstein—I’m testing all three) every [...]

New York harvest

Matt and I spent the weekend in Knox, New York at his grandparents’ house, a.k.a Turtle Hill Farm. It was a 48-hour trip for me; for Matt it was a nice weekend wedged between two business trips.

Visiting Turtle Hill is truly a rural experience, at least for we D.C. urban-suburb types. There is not a [...]

A 5 year anniversary

I missed the actual anniversary, as I was in another hemisphere, but about two weeks ago I quietly passed my five year mark of east coast living. In that time I’ve been doing a little reminiscing about August and September of 2002…

I moved to College Park, Maryland, an area I had visited once at age [...]