The Zog Blog

Red hair is really, really rare out here on the west coast, so Jacob attracts a lot of attention. Given the craze about the Harry Potter book and movie coming out this summer, we’ve been getting a lot of Weasley comments lately. I usually think people are out of their mind, smile politely, and back [...]

Summer has arrived on the Monterey Peninsula, which is really too bad, because “summer” here apparently means “cold and foggy”. We’ve had to use the heat more this weekend than any other time since moving here, and today I wore a thick sweater. Jacob seems impervious to cold.

Jon and I have spent most of the [...]

Yesterday? Not the greatest day. In fact, one of the more trying ones, in the dying-from-a-thousand-papercuts sense. But hey, it’s over. And I promise I’ll get to your comments and questions from the last entry soon. Of course, part of the problem was another slew of computer issues. Thankfully (and almost unbelievably), none of them [...]

I’m no Martha Stewart, I’m no June Cleaver. But some days, I come closer than others.

Challah. Jacob and I make it together every week. I get all teary whenever I think about how his childhood will be anchored and woven through with the smell of baking bread, the feel of flour and dough on [...]

I think the universe was trying to tell me something when I thought up the title to that last post. This weekend, two of our three computers threw fatal hard drive failures. Joy! Wait, no. That’s wrong. What’s the word I’m looking for?
…Oh yeah. Suck!
We’ve managed, at this point, to create a workaround [...]

And sadly, this goes for grandmother visits, too.

I think they had a good time.

I hope so, because we loved having them, and hope they return soon!

Me? I’m rejoicing in the spring that has finally arrived. The weather was so warm for Bev and Nancy’s visit, and everything was so sunny for most of this [...]

We have visitors! Mie-Mie (short for “Grammie Bev”) and Nanny (Nancy) are spending some time with us this weekend. Jacob is having a blast with all of the silly attention. Yesterday, we went to the Hakone Gardens up in Saratoga.

Jacob has previously only seen these gardens from the immobility of the back-pack carrier, but [...]

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We had a lovely day here today, even by the local standards. It was 65 degrees, sunny, and very clear. To the north, you could see all the way into the Santa Cruz mountains (about an hour away). To the west, nothing but ocean. I feel like I write a lot about our day-to-day activities [...]