Christmas was always one of our family’s favorite times of the year! Christmas got a whale of a buildup each year, starting with decorating the tree on November 26th. That was Mamie Régine’s birthday,…
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“Fêtes!”
We just loved “fêtes,” special days of any kind, and with six children had more than our fair share. For starters, we celebrated a collective eight birthdays a year, every year! Which gave…
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2007: Adolescence
Here is our annual update from December 2007. It’s that time again: Best Wishes for the Holidays from Santa Cruz to you! Our adolescents remained determinedly adolescent again this year, which was not…
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25th Yale Law Reunion
25th Reunion of the Class of 1982 I had the good fortune to graduate from The Yale Law School (motto: don’t forget the “The”). In October 2007, for the first time in 25…
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Alex & Charlie’s Friends
Needless to say, all of Alex and Charlie’s friends can’t all fit here. But between Happy Valley School, Scotts Valley Middle School, Scotts Valley High School and soccer, there were quite a…
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Cutting the Umbilical Cord!!
They all have to leave, the children that is. We knew that, just as every parent knows that. But being forewarned was not necessarily being forearmed. First, the children become teenagers. That…
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Marlow in Bucks
Marlow is where I call home. I moved away for good in 1974, making my first move to California to restart college there, but always came back regularly to visit mum and…
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Marie-Hélène Berhaut (born and raised in Paris)
I have to admit that it would be very hard for me to paint any kind of complete and balanced portrait of Marie-Hélène at this point, even a miniature one. In part,…
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Grand-Père
Our children were a little short on grandparents. After my mother died in 1996, just two years after Marie-Hélène and I and the four older children had moved in together, just one year after Charlie…
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Maman
Being a mother is the center of Marie-Hélène‘s life. She was the office manager at Kevorkian & Rawlings, the law firm where we met in Paris, and has been at various times…
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2007 summer vacation
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in England’s Northeast, home of my maternal grandmother’s Irish side of the family. One of the lines on the Tyne and Wear Metro in Newcastle terminates at St. James’s Park, where Newcastle…
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Alban and Tom Graduate High School!!
Daphné with her graduate. Way to go, little bro! Made it!!Needless to say, both of our 2007 Graduates put the parents through some hoops before they made it. Their theory must be something…
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Stamping
During the course of our lives together, Marie-Hélène finally began to have some real time for herself as the older children became more self-sufficient. She had been the only taxi driver for all the…
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Skiing
We can’t really say that skiing is a family hobby, although Marie-Hélène’s and my first date was a ski weekend in Megève in early 1994. That weekend could have been the start of something great.…
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Family Groups
The hardest pictures to get were ones of all eight of us together. And it got harder over time for the simple reason that our four older children had better things to do than…