Category Friends
The pros and cons of being social
I think I’ve mentioned before that, in an effort to expand and deepen my friendships, I’ve adopted the following rule: Whenever you have a choice between being social and not being social, be social. This weekend was an interesting study in how that rule can play out. I. On Friday night, I went to a reception for Maryam […]
Playing catch-up
So it’s been, what, a week since I last wrote? Argh. If it had been just an ordinary week, I wouldn’t worry about it — one of the biggest stumgling blocks (at least for me) in journal writing or blogging is feeling like I have to capture all the Big Moments that I missed writing about before I […]
Denver – Christmas Day
I awoke with a start in the wee hours of the morning — I had forgotten that there was a videoconference scheduled in my bedroom for exactly that time, and if I didn’t hurry, I would be caught sleeping in bed when everyone else dialed in to resume negotiations. I scrambled out into the living […]
Denver – White Christmas
It’s rare that the weather cooperates and does exactly what it should at the moment it should be done. But last night that happened! After a relaxed and uneventful Christmas Eve Day, Amanda and I went downtown for dinner at a new restaurant called Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar. We ordered oysters and soup […]
Denver – Tableau vivant
It was late on Christmas Eve when Amanda and I posted our tableau vivant Nativity scene. We considered taking a few minutes to wish our readers Merry Christmas and offer some cheery words about the birth of Our Lord, but we were sleepy and decided to let the image speak for itself. Then we remembered all of our art history […]
Denver – Productive and leisurely
It’s a good thing I went to church last Sunday and heard the Christmas message then — because that sure didn’t happen today. Instead, I slept until 10am (nine hours of sleep! in a row!) and spent the rest of the day being moderately productive and 100% on holiday — in both senses of the word: I relished the […]
Denver – Sweet familiarity
Welp, I made it to Denver. The trip went fine — but talk about over the river and through the woods! At 6:45am we were still sitting in the New York conference room negotiating, and I was starting to despair of catching the 8:00am train back to DC. But then the partner leaned over and […]
Portraits on a Friday night
It has been a long week. It’s technically over and I’m supposed to be on vacation — I fly to Las Vegas tomorrow for a week with the padres and Thanksgiving — but the partners I’m working for haven’t batted an eye at my vacation plans and I’ll probably spend much of the week working. Fortunately I […]
Happy birthday!
Heather and I turned thirty-three today! It would have been fun to celebrate together, but since we’re on opposite sides of the country, we made do with what we had. Here’s how my day went down: 9:00am – Ballet class (the real beginner class this time) 10:30am – Brunch at Locolat (Belgian waffles!) 1:15pm – Crossfit […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 