travel

  • movies in the park.

    I sometimes get a little misty-eyed for country life. All those fresh flowers and roadside stands and wide open spaces. But when it comes down to it, I love this city too much to…

    July 25, 2013 13 Comments
  • a watery weekend.

    Another heatwave, another weekend in Connecticut. I haven’t taken as much advantage of slipping away for the weekend since I was in college and homesick. But when you sleep in a tiny loft without…

    July 22, 2013 5 Comments
  • take the a train to rockaway.

    This weekend, we took the newly up and running A train out to Rockaway to get our fill of sunburn and tacos and surf and sand. I’ve counted four times on my fingers to…

    June 3, 2013 19 Comments
  • lobster rolls.

    If you don’t grow up with them, the concept is understandably cause for some puzzling. Lobster meat in a hot dog bun? It’s like nestling a pair of cashmere-socked feet into a pair of…

    May 28, 2013 29 Comments
  • memorial day.

    Tiny tributes to fallen soldiers: boyscouts and marching bands and bright red fire trucks, lichen and granite and topsy-turvy flags.…

    May 27, 2013 2 Comments
  • out and about: bear mountain.

    Here’s a thing about me that you might not know. To my family, I’m Bear. Growing up, while I picked buttercups on the margins of the soccer field, my mom and dad shouted a…

    April 22, 2013 15 Comments
  • traveling in pairs.

    We woke up Sunday morning to clean sheets. Clean sheets and the newspaper waiting for us. But somewhere between those clean sheets and morning paper something went wrong. Not terribly wrong or even very…

    February 25, 2013 30 Comments
  • make-believe: hawaiian vacation

    In December, right before Christmas, our friends Simon and Jenny moved to Hawaii. James and I have been dreaming about a getaway to visit them (and soak in the island air) ever since. An…

    February 21, 2013 11 Comments
  • desert (not so) solitaire.

    It’s the colors I like best. All those aquas and pinks and purples. I’ve never thought of myself as a pinks and purples girl, but one look at these desert colors and I’m feeling…

    January 29, 2013 22 Comments
  • snow barns.

    If you follow me on instragram, you’ve already seen your share of snowy barns there. But just in case you don’t and maybe even if you do, here are a few more snowy scenes from…

    January 8, 2013 32 Comments