mi familia

I'll start in order of distance, and see how far we get. Just a few blocks to the southeast we have my lovely sister, Emily! Emily has two jobs and is therefore more interesting to talk about than myself. First of all, she works for Spare Change News. If you know what that is, BUY IT! If not, then you soon will. Spare Change is a "street paper", put out by a non-profit organization. It addresses issues related to homelessness, and a lot of the content is by homeless and low income authors. Vendors buy the paper at the headquarters in Harvard Square for 25 cents, then sell it on the street for a dollar.

She also works at Sofra, a delicious new bakery in North Cambridge. Delicious.



My parents. I am from Maine, they live there. My mom is a nurse, she works overnights and has for many years. My dad builds boats! We actually live in Maine because my parents met working at a restaurant in Burlington, Vermont, where they went to UVM. That restaurant, Carbur's, opened a Portland branch and sent my dad out here to work it. They never left! Eventually my dad got tired of restaurant work though and went to the Landing Boat School in Kennebunk.

This pic is them in Puget Sound, I believe, where they vacationed this fall with their friends Peter and Debbie, who merit their own entry altogether. I stole it from my mom's very new facebook page. That kind of gives me the creeps but I am getting used to it.

OK Since I mentioned the Landing School, I'll tell you about how we got interested in it: my grandmother married the resident naval architect and scholar. This was about 1992. Here she is looking over the table at Thanksgiving (she's smiling, I swear!). My mom's mother, she lives a town over from my parents. Although a lot of my family is there now, they weren't originally from Maine. My mom and dad came for the Carbur's gig in the late 70s, and after we were born my grandmother and two aunts followed. I can't blame them, they were from New Jersey.

There are more.. New Hampshire, Minnesota, California, Italy, Colombia, Peru..

so this is a blog...

I am not a writer, I'm a scientist.

Right now I am scientifically and obsessively watching radar maps and hourly forecasts and hoping that my 9am flight gets out of Logan Airport tomorrow! If all goes well I will be reporting from Golden, Colorado tomorrow afternoon. Home of the Coors brewery, the Colorado School of Mines, and my college roommate, Lauren. Fingers crossed.

She is in her 5th and final year as a PhD student at Mines, studying energy economics. Useful stuff, these days. I visited her when she first moved out, in the fall of 2004. She didn't have a car, but we climbed a small mountain and a mesa just leaving from her front door. That was pretty great, although I am excited to maybe see a little more this time, and also see how she's established herself! (Just in time to take off again)

I am halfway through MET's Tourism/Economic Development Master's. I work at BU. I did my undergrad at BU, as did my younger sister. All hail MamaBU.