Here’s the 2008 annual update that we sent to friends and family for the holiday season at the end of the year, with a few embellishments: Happy Holidays to you and yours! One…
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2008 anecdotes
This page includes a few anecdotes and photos that don’t fit in other 2008 Journal pages. That’s all! We live in a forest in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains a…
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2008 Special Days
Many of our social events in Santa Cruz revolve around Happy Valley School. We’d been parents there for almost twelve years when this photo was taken at the Piccos’ party in December. It looks as if 2008-9…
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2008: Alban out and about!
We owe this page to Crissy, Luke’s charming girlfriend, who was kind enough to give us copies of a bunch of digital photos from her camera of Alban out and about with his friends.…
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Tom in Paris in 2008
Tom left to go on vacation after Christmas in 2007, and ended up spending the whole year of 2008 in Paris. Then all of 2009. Etcetera. He was gone. When he left…
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2008: Down the Coast
In Santa Cruz, we have our very own little esplanade where we can walk or bicycle along the ocean whenever we get the urge, West Cliff Drive. It’s about a 15 minute drive…
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The Wonderful World of DISNEY!!
“To all who come to this Happy Place, welcome!” Walt Disney used those words when he opened the original Disneyland in Anaheim California in 1955. He could have been talking to us. He was…
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Big Kids with Little Kids.
Different families have different strengths and weaknesses, different spaces of trust linking family members, and different walls keeping some of them apart. The most striking strength of our blended family, a strength which…
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2008: Kids’ soccer!
This was the year that our soccer became really intense, at least for the parents. Let’s start with one of the high points. On the left, at the bottom left-hand corner, wearing…
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2008 Family Portraits
Not in any particular order, this page features a collection of portraits of us in 2008. That’s what this website is all about, after all! Rather than adding good portraits to preexisting pages…
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La famille de Marie-Hélène !
Marie-Hélène’s family were kind to us all during our initial years together in France. There was a flattering curiosity about us, expressed with a French reserve but nonetheless expressed, in particular about…
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Childrens’ Parties
We have had quite a few parties for the children, but find surprisingly few photos, perhaps because a child’s party is one of those moments when the parents do not have a lot…
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2008: Ian visits aging aunts . . .
One of the pleasures of middle age has been discovering my aging aunts. Taking advantage of the low fares, I spent five February days in England and visited Aunty Vi (Violet Rose Eliza: how’s…
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Papa
I love being a dad. No doubt about it, it’s a wonderful thing to be a father. Especially in this family! But you would be forgiven for suggesting that I would be…
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Pacific Grove and Point Lobos
We have the good fortune to live about ten minutes from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Cruz, which is at the North end of Monterey Bay on a lovely piece of California coastline. One…
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We are cat people, and this page is dedicated to our cats:
“Banane” was our first cat. Virginie Bournigal, who worked with Marie-Hélène and me at our law firm in Paris and lived in the southern suburb of Malakoff, gave her to me when…
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Charles & Alexander 1998 – 2007
Charlie and Alex shared a remarkable complicity throughout their childhood. It continues to this day, years after their parents moved apart. This page is comprised of four galleries of photos of the two…
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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk!!
Yet another of the assets of our little town (population around 60,000) is the Boardwalk, named after the American word for a promenade along the top of a beach. The walkway used…
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La Grée
La Grée will be our vacation home forever, in my mind at least. The first version of this page was written in French with a lot of help from Marie-Hélène. During the…
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“Our house is a very, very, very fine house. . . ” (Graham Nash, with CSNY).
From 1997 to 2010, home was in a forest, with trees literally growing through our deck! The house was built in 1979, the year I graduated Berkeley, on a knoll, with the hillside…
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The American Dream
Unlike RVs, cars are not a big deal for this household, except to those of driving age who for whatever reason do not yet have one. Then cars are a very big deal!…