2024 Highlights (with Marie’s photographic bests)

2024 was a whale of a year! By any measure, it was a momentous year, in which we semi-retired after 33 years » Read more

Marie’s favorite images of 2023

I always love when the New York Times comes out in December with the “Best of ” lists, particularly of films. Our » Read more

I hate to be in front of a camera lens and generally shy away from people. Ironically, I find strangers fascinating and » Read more

As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more

2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more

After a wonderful long weekend in the Methow Valley mountain biking with Dave, we were off to NYC. We were lucky with » Read more

Saturday, March 27, 2021 New York, back at last! This long-awaited, week-long return to New York after 16 months away flew by. » Read more

2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more

2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more

The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more