Monthly Archives: June 2009

We’re safely home, where Arwyn is writhing and nipping in ecstasy, Katherine is alternately cooing and fussing (after staring at the cat in fascination for five solid minutes), and Sydney and I are trying to get our house and heads … Continue reading →

Sydney planned quite a lovely day for us today: a leisurely morning, followed by a drive in Acadia National Park, with occasional short hikes to keep us active.  But apparently Murphy’s Law had other plans. First, Katherine woke us up … Continue reading →

Sydney and I are currently stretched out in a gigantic bed in a gigantic room in a lovely inn just outside Acadia National Park in Maine.  Katherine is stretched out on a little pad we made for her on the … Continue reading →

Having spent a few more days in Nova Scotia after I got back from Germany, we’re about to head back to Ithaca. We’re planning to make the drive home a leisurely one, i.e., taking three days to do it instead … Continue reading →

This morning I got an email from Cornell, alerting me to the theft of an administrative computer that contained my name and social security number (along with those of many other students).  I got a similar email from Yale last … Continue reading →

We’ve been worked pretty hard at my conference in Germany, but this afternoon we got a break and went on an excursion up the Rhine to the Siebengebirge area (‘seven’ apparently means many—there are over forty). Here are a few … Continue reading →

Katherine has not gotten in the bonding time with Grandma that any of us were expecting because she has been eating up a storm.  Growth spurt?  At any rate, she spent all of last night eating–and then slept for 8 … Continue reading →

Katherine seems to have settled down–finally!–and is now behaving just like her normal self.  Except that she’s pulling a growth spurt on us again, it seems, and wants much food and attention. Sydney, meanwhile, is amused by everyone’s attempts to … Continue reading →

The hike to Cape Split turned out to be a total of about ten miles instead of the expected eight. But we survived. Katherine seemed quite happy finally to be bouncing up and down for hours on end. I think … Continue reading →

We reached the Penner home in Nova Scotia after something like 22 hours of traveling.  Whew!  Katherine traveled really, really well . . . until we hit the Nova Scotia border, when she decided she’d had quite enough of that … Continue reading →