I recently returned from Truro and my in-laws’ annual family vacation. I’ve gone about five times now but some of them have been going for over 50 years. For little Briana it was her second trip there and it was amazing how different the experience was for a 14-month-old compared to a 2-month-old...
We have our sights set on a trip to Europe in the Fall but figured a 7-hour plane ride shouldn't be Saoirse's first flight. So, to prepare for that, we flew to where my husband hopes to retire a few decades from now: Wilmington, NC.
Upon visiting for the first time, we did love it. It reminds me of...
I recently traveled to France for the 3rd time.
The first time was my honeymoon, 25 years ago, when I was just a “kid”. We did all the touristy stuff. I was too nervous to go to the top of the Eiffel tower or the Arc de Triomphe, so I waited while my husband did it. I don’t remember much of...
Last month we celebrated a family ‘first’ and ‘last’. Our daughter Molly finished college in May month, so we celebrated our first college graduation as parents. It was also my last (at least as best I can tell) commute from Washington DC to Boston, driving the family car jammed to the roof with...
As I’m now getting ready for my 34th birthday, birthday parties aren’t something I even think about at this point. But turning 1? That is definitely cause for a celebration! And celebrating is exactly what we did recently, with a wonderful birthday party for our daughter Briana.
We intentionally...
Last weekend, I took Saoirse for her first time to see kites flying. She was much more interested in seeing the other children than the kites, but the experience brought back one of my favorite childhood memories of flying a kite. Well really, it involves crashing a kite.
When I was about 4 years...
I have loved dogs for as long as I can remember. I grew up with parents who were on the opposite end of the loving dogs spectrum. My father did not want anything to do with them, and my mother loves them. I have 4 siblings and between the 5 of us and my mother, my father was worn down. On...
With tax season behind us, the big financial news coming from Washington, D.C. now is about the debt ceiling. Here we’ll talk about what’s going on, what could happen, and what it means for your portfolio.
Congress authorizes various forms of spending through the legislation it passes. When...
As the training wheels come off and we get more experience as empty nesters we recently decided to go farther afield with our travel. My wife Martha loves art history and is a big fan of European artists from the 17th through 18th centuries. She read about an exhibition for the Dutch artist...
Briana will turn a year old in a few weeks. This seemed like a good opportunity to pause and reflect on what a wonderful and eventful year it’s been.
The biggest change has probably been her mobility. We’ve really come a long way since those first few days when the only thing she could do was...
I’m a bit obsessed with dates and numbers (hey – can you expect anything else from someone whose passion is Finance?). I appreciate a date like 4/4 (which is today!) more than most people. Therefore, when it recently came to my attention that I was turning one billion seconds old, I was a bit...
I was in Maui in March 2011, when Tokyo had the 9.1 earthquake.
It was March 10th, and my husband and I went on a whale watch. January, February, and March are prime whale season in Hawaii. The humpback whales migrate there to have their babies in the warm water. We had been on this particular...
