A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Winter solstice today, so no going anywhere — the shortest day in Truckee, snow stacked on every branch outside, and the trees inside doing the work of keeping…
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No travel this Christmas — we're staying put in Truckee, and the house has been dressed for it. Three trees this year, which is at least one more than…
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A winter weekend in Cambridge, built around the city center colleges and museums walk — about 6.2 km, which sounds modest until you keep stopping at every…
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A week in Cambridge in early December, which is about as far from Truckee as a place can feel while still being cold. One walk went along the Cam past a line…
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Cambridge in December, and the plan was just the river. We crossed onto a bridge over the Cam near Jesus Green and stopped there a while — gulls packed thick…
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Thanksgiving at the house in Truckee, and the day ran on two tracks: a breakfast casserole out of the oven in the morning — bacon and cheese over the top,…
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Started at the Lincoln Memorial with the sun sitting directly behind the roofline, so the whole front of it stayed in shadow while planes on the National…
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Washington, D.C., and the whole plan was the National Mall — the strip the Park Service keeps between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. We crossed into the…
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Halloween at the house in Truckee, with snow still on the ground in patches from earlier in the week. Costumes came together in two waves. The girls went full…
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Our daughter's birthday, and she opened everything at the kitchen counter wearing the green triceratops hood, which stayed on through the whole thing — horns,…
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