I love Monterey. The whole peninsula feels magical to me, being the Steinbeck fanatic that I am, and each time I drive down through the thumbprint of the Salinas Valley and hear words like the Gabilan Range, I feel transported. I’m truly not fanatical about personalities these days—I think I fizzled out on Duran Duran—but Steinbeck just […]
First of all, so sorry for the down time last weekend. We had a little pointing problem with our DNS and it took a while to get pointed to the right person to fix it. And now I’m in New Orleans.
I remember the first time I stepped off the plane in New Orleans, the air […]
These past four days have felt like four weeks. After much agonizing, we said good-bye to our beloved Tally on Saturday. Thankfully, Noe’s Grandma and Grandpa are visiting, which gave us room to just unplug and mourn. Thankfully, too, Christopher had set up a mini-getaway on Sunday-Monday to celebrate our anniversary. So the morning after […]
January 18, 2008 – 1:40 pm
I drove out to Point Reyes yesterday for three days of solitude with my computer, my printer, and my manuscript. I’ve been editing, editing, editing. Chopping, chopping, chopping. Winnowing, winnowing, winnowing. And it’s been ridiculously gorgeous outside while I’ve been staring at my computer screen. So I’m going to give a brief, albeit indulgent, description of where I […]
November 19, 2007 – 2:58 pm
As we hover in the 11 days between Noe’s birthday and the year anniversary of our being “matched” with her, I’ve been gushing with gratitude (literally . . . I thanked the garden before pulling out the last of the eggplant last weekend). It seems the fuller I become with love for her, the more […]
You know, that embassy guy was right. Noe is a lucky girl to be coming home to this place. It’s a stellar, sunny day and we’ve already enjoyed a morning bottle in the garden (still working on the coffee juggle . . . don’t worry, I’m being careful), a play in the living room, a […]
I smell like baby powder and diapers and mango and teething biscuits and drool, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. It is wild being here in Guatemala with Noe, knowing that this time we’ll be coming home with her. It keeps hitting us little by little; we’ll think, “man, I’m so bummed we’re […]
I had all these lovely things I was going to write about today, and then I read this article in the NYT about how more and more airlines are charging for more and more “amenities.” Now, let me start off by saying, I understand that airlines are trying to make a few extra bucks by […]
I’m back. There was a hiccup—well, more like a full on belch—with the transport to CasaSandra that left us stranded in Cancun for a quarter of our trip. Normally, I wouldn’t sweat finding my own way to the hotel. But Holbox is out there. A two and a half hour ride through the jungle to […]
I know, I just got here. But I’m surprising my husband and taking him to Isla Holbox, a little tiny island off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, for our anniversary, and the plans have been in motion longer than Swirling Notions has. So I’ll check back in when I get back next week.
In the […]
