Today I'd like to introduce a new themed thread to my blog: day trips with Teddy. Making these trips is a conscious and new decision for me. For the past several years I've tended to use Friday mornings for much more prosaic purposes, primarily …
The journey to first grade
August 27, 2008 one reader comment
Tommy started first grade on Monday, at the same school where he attended all-day kindergarten last year. The whole enterprise felt much more blasé than his first day of kindergarten – he didn't need new uniforms, he knew he was going to class …
A tale of two Vermonts
August 26, 2008 6 reader comments
I had the good fortune this summer to do my food shopping at two of the more phenomenal organic markets to be found anywhere outside of California. The Place Monge market in Paris and the Waitsfield Farmers Market. I've already talked about Paris, …
The old swimmin’ hole
August 25, 2008 5 reader comments
It doesn't get much more Americana than this: When we go to Vermont, we actually take our dips at a place we call the swimming hole. Known as Lareau's for the farmer who used to own the land, this deep bend in the river is a place where Tom Sawyer …
A return to Giverny
August 21, 2008 3 reader comments
Tommy has recently developed a fascination with my cookbooks. He loves to read them and look at the pictures, generally asking me all the while if we can make all of the desserts. One of his favorites is really more of a coffee table book, Monet's …
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