Wednesday, December 15, 2021 →
Anna joined me for an afternoon fireside chat.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 →
Boosted!
The family scattered tonight, postponing our tree trimming until tomorrow, so I was left alone on the sofa. I decided to watch Arrival, which I’ve seen 2 or 3 times before.
Dad and Dot returned to St. Croix for the winter, and what they thought was an iguana that had crawled between the upper louvres turned out to be a red-tailed boa constrictor, an invasive species. They called the hotline and the snake guy came to get it.
Erin and I have started watching Yellowstone, with Kevin Costner and others. Just three episodes into the first season, and I’ve realized it’s a mafia movie, just set it Montana. Hardly any good food in sight, but nice hats, though.
At the Steel String Brewery’s Pluck Farm to hear the Loose Lucies (Grateful Dead cover band) and drink cold beer in the cool outdoors or rural Orange County.
Just met a few colleagues in person for the first time, a year into my job at DCRI on the RADx-UP project. Smiles all around.
I’ve worked at Duke University since 2007 (and known the editor longer), but it’s only now in the Winter issue of Duke Magazine that I’ve been able to contribute an article. This one is about sea turtle research in the US Virgin Islands. Read it.🐢
Headed home after the Thanksgiving holiday in Cleveland (and a 5k race with Oliver and the rest of the family). The marathon of life at home continues, but this short vacation helped to restore my calm, clarity, confidence.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 →
Soccer tournament in Greensboro. Oliver scored goal in 4-1 loss, tough game. Picked up Anna at UNCG and came downtown for delish brunch at Chez Genèse.
This is good bye: Gathered two eggs and scattered meal worms for the hens. They are about to leave, going to live elsewhere. Life is so complicated at the moment that we decided to give away the chickens.
Family night out to UNC’s Memorial Hall to hear the Clef Hangers men’s student a cappella group. Amazing rendition of Toto’s Africa and the classics, UNC Fight Song and James Taylor’s Carolina in my Mind (he grew up a couple of miles from where I live).
So happy to have finally learned how to connect the two Ultimate Ears Wonderboom speakers, and now I have them perched on the upper kitchen cabinets as I play music loud: first Pain by War on Drugs, then Windfall by Son Volt, now the latest Big Red Machine album.
I have to be careful with my derisive laughs during this Bachelorette premier. Erin just reminded me how goofy I was when I was dating her. Example: my resume in the form of a nutritional label.
Date night with Erin, dinner at a newish Italian restaurant, now home again. Erin is helping Oliver prepare his Halloween costume (Hades, he’s studying Mythology and loves the Percy Jackson series), and I’ve just settled into the living room where Malia is watching the Bachelorette.
Beautiful, warm day to tour American University, the National Gallery of Art, and the Mall.
Washington Metro. Waiting with Malia, on our way to dinner.
Papaya in the garden box, got there via the compost, and won’t survive the cold but reminds me of my time in Vanuatu and how easy papaya seeds sprout.
Greetings from Durham, North Carolina and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. I’m working from the office today to support a big virtual tmeeting I’ve helped plan.
