David and I spending a late Saturday afternoon kicking back down at the river.
The arrival of Gabriel Patrick Burden back on May 29 helped to make this an especially memorable Father’s Day. A few highlights: Breakfast, cards and presents with Kris and the kids – and such cuddling from Isobel! Mass A visit from Cat and the boys Introducing Grandpa Dennis to new baby Gabriel Steak tips on [...]
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One step back when raking leaves with the kids.
My season of skipping a marathon in favor of trackwork and short races ended with many fall race goals met (and expectations exceeded), others abandoned in the face of injury, and finally, even the injury providing an awesome opportunity, the motivation to drop out of my last planned race and pace our 8-year-old in his [...]
A selection of the things I shared on Twitter this week. Wired mag editor makes a case for killing comments:http://ow.ly/31tQR, 10/29 Whither Conde Nast Digital? Rolling back into the main print group?http://ow.ly/30NuU, 10/28 Our eldest ran strong this afternoon in his first cross country meet!, 10/27 RT @avinash: SethGodin makes the case for tracking Internal [...]
I wrote this piece on fishing with kids for NH.com and it appears on the homepage today. It includes information and links on how to get started, gear, and where to access kid-friendly shoreline fishing in New Hampshire. Also note the photo – David as a wee fisherman a few years back. Hard to believe [...]
David reads a story on the Silly Bandz fad aloud to his sisters from the Sunday paper’s Parade mag. He should know. Note his arm! Boy, it may have been many years since the “friendship beads” of my own childhood, but in some ways things are very much the same.
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Kris and I took the kids to see Santa and Mrs. Claus on the most decorated street in Bedford (just over the line from Manchester) Friday evening. An amazing night, all the more so due to its entirely non-commercial, neighborly, word of mouth nature; no charge to visit with Santa (even if you want to [...]
Sometimes nothing soothes the spirit like a day spent in the outdoors – away from the computer monitor and keyboard, the desk and lamp, the debilitating radiation of the television. But this doesn’t always require a journey into the wilderness. This afternoon, after Isobel got up from her nap, Kris and I took the kids [...]
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For me, having grown up here in New England, apple picking is a ritual as iconic as country fairs, sugar on snow, cutting your own Christmas tree, and fishing opening day of trout season. Not I do any one of these things annually, exactly - though most, most years. But they mean enough to me, [...]
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