Today Sam tried out her first pedal bike. After several cautious starts, and a few rests, then some more cautious starts, AC let go of the bike. And she stayed up! Then they did it all over again. And again. Each time Sam rode by herself for a little longer before braking. I wish I could have captured on camera the …

Read More

Happy 5th Birthday, Sam!

Read More

The day before her fifth birthday Sam reached a milestone: she completed her first swim class without a parent in the water with her! She was extremely nervous about this. I was extremely nervous about her being extremely nervous. But once she got in the water she was fine. And for once I got to take pictures instead …

Read More

I love Richard Wilbur’s poetry and I especially appreciate his collection for kids: The Disappearing Alphabet. Here is Wilbur on what would happen if there were no letter J: If, all at once, there were no letter J, A cloud of big blue birds might fly away, And though they’d been an angry, raucous crew, I think that I …

Read More

The bathroom in our flat is a bit over the top.

Read More

Farewell party for the Linden Lab Brighton office. There were speeches. And a lot of beer.

Read More

The gymnastics instructor asks Sam to demonstrate proper skipping to the rest of the class.

Read More

Watched us forlornly as we passed under his window.

Read More

An old cardboard moving box + a lot of parcel tape + AC’s ingenuity = one Wardrobe to Narnia! Here it is a few hours later: Yes, I know, it’s very subtle. Unlike C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe, ours lets you know up front that you’re entering another world. The real mystery of our wardrobe is whether or not it will withstand …

Read More

We seem to be in the midst of a “fam-demic”: on Thursday AC wasn’t feeling so good. On Friday Sam’s nose started dripping. Today I’m not feeling so great. We had plans to go away this weekend but we canceled them and are relaxing at home in Brighton. Except that it was such a gorgeous day that we just had to go out for …

Read More