Category Archives: Friends and Family
Congratulations to My Lovely Wife!
April 23, 2007 – 1:18 pm
Yesterday Melita won the Zazzle Earth Day T-shirt design contest. Below, Sam sports one of the shirts, and you can see it here (check out the rest of her Zazzle store). She’s definitely going to put to good use the prize, Adobe Creative Suite 3. And since Earth Day is also her birthday, this made […]
Happy Birthday, Ryan!
August 8, 2006 – 8:00 am
I’d like to wish a happy birthday to Ryan Martin, who was lucky enough to be published on the front page of SI this very same day.
Museum of Fine Arts
July 17, 2006 – 11:53 pm
Today we visited the Museum of Fine Arts. I think my favorite part of such museums are the galleries with ancient art. It seems like there’s always a lion from the side of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace; an Assyrian bas relief of a warrior with a massive, braided beard; and Grecian urns. What I hadn’t seen in […]
Visit to Maine
July 15, 2006 – 11:56 pm
Today we took a day trip with my mother to Maine, mainly to see the house of author Sarah Orne Jewett, who was the subject of my mother’s masters thesis. Jewett had an odd fascination with her initials; she would carve them on random items, including the window pane of her room, which you can […]
Scott Aniol, be our Mildred J. Hill
March 30, 2006 – 8:00 am
Happy birthday to Scott, who at age 19 is almost out of the teen years! Here’s the present I’ll be sending him.