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Maine Exploring

  • Maine Winter / Maya the Snow Bunny

    We spent two weeks in Maine over Christmas and although the majority of that time was spent in the bomb cyclone polar vortex of well below zero Fahrenheit, we did get a few days…

    January 16, 2018
  • Vacation // Sandboxes and Granddads

    In April 1985, when I was 18 months old, my granddad built me a sandbox and marked it with a Sharpie (maybe those hadn’t been invented yet, though) on the bottom. To: Emily Boyle,…

    July 21, 2017
  • A Snowy Maine Walk

    Before the Christmas plague arrived and took nearly all of us down, we tried to get outside with Maya for at least a few minutes every day. Clearly we’ve been away from Maine too…

    January 13, 2017
  • Stoic Sledding

    Once a day, we’ve been getting in some Maine action – cutting down Christmas trees, tonight a sunset walk in the woods, and a little sledding down the tiny hill in front of my…

    December 28, 2016
  • Sweet Summer

    Summer feels like a very long time ago and also a little like it’s still going strong, what with the temperatures down here only now lowering into the mid-80’s. But Maya and I left…

    September 28, 2016
  • Maine Exploring / Angela Adams

    I thought you guys would get a kick out of this space. It’s the new Angela Adams store in a giant, lofty old building on Middle Street in Portland, Maine, and I went back…

    September 2, 2015
  • Blueberry picking in Maine

    Maine Exploring / Picking Blueberries!

    This is the first year Michael and I have been in Maine since our wedding seven years ago, and I’ve really missed blueberry season in Maine all these years. The weird thing is that…

    August 11, 2015
  • An Evening Canoe

    My dad and I took the canoe out on China Lake this evening, which we haven’t done together in years. It was lovely and calm and the perfect way to get some fresh air…

    July 23, 2015
  • Snow on Trees

    It snowed! In Maine, not Dublin, in case you missed the episode last week where I surprised my family by coming home for Thanksgiving. I think this is the first snow I’ve seen in…

    November 28, 2014