Category Archives: Trips & Adventures

January 27, 2012

Bon Voyage

In just a few days I’ll be stepping into a large airplane headed to Bangkok

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January 10, 2011

Quiet Time

Are these cold winter days quiet for you, too? Or are you still boisterously celebrating? What’s keeping you warm?

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July 12, 2010

By the Sea

We were at the Cape for a family reunion, and I volunteered to lead a group on a little clam shack tour. We set out one afternoon to sample four of the best shacks on the Cape, four caravans of seafood-loving adults and a handful of adventurous kids, and a styrofoam cooler full of cheap beer.

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October 23, 2009

Claire's and the Northeast Kingdom

Last weekend we went up to the very tip-top of Vermont, the beautiful and majestically named Northeast Kingdom. Why is it called that? I don’t know. I found it very silly when I first heard the term — probably uttered by my my mother and father in law, who used to live there — but [...]

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May 5, 2009

Shaping and Scoring: Baking Bread in Vermont

At the end of last summer, I spent a couple months working in the bakery at the Williamstown Hippie Co-Op, somewhat confusingly named Wild Oats (no, not that Wild Oats). A baker’s hours are pretty different from a book designer’s hours, so three days a week I was able to do a bit of both: [...]

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