Some images from the weekend: This was undoubtedly the best moment (Nola met her new cousin, Eloise), but there was also this Wherein we marvelled together at Brian Selznick’s magical pencil illustrations in The Invention…
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The new parents have introduced their wee one to the world, so I can tell you now that we have been blessed with another beautiful granddaughter. Joy and gratitude and relief (those last hours of…
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An emotional week, bookended by deaths: a friend Monday, a beloved 90-year-old uncle today. And yesterday afternoon we welcomed our newest grandchild, watched our daughter-in-law nurse her baby, our son swaddling and rocking… Pure Joy…
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On the cusp of retirement, we’ve begun thinking about where we might be living five years from now. I suspect many of us must be mulling over possible changes — Duchesse at Passage des Perles…
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Around the time my Mom died, two cousins I’d barely got to know set up a Facebook page for the extended family, published a family history going back several hundred years to our French and…
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