More from Block Island
One evening after dinner the sun was going down, and it was a beautiful clear night. It was one of those sunsets where every minute the sky looked better than the minute before. I...
Author: Chris Garrity
What do you do with Zucchini?
We’ve been having a lot of fun with the Wilson’s CSA. This week we got a bunch of zucchini and summer squash along with an eggplant. Well obviously the first thing that comes to...
Block Island on our own
We’re back from a week at Block Island. We left all the electronics behind, and the world seems to have survived. This was our first time on Block Island, and we took advantage of...
Gumbo Z’Herbes
We’ve started getting a share from Wilson’s new CSA this summer. Last week we ended up with a lot of greens. Between the bunches of kale and chard, the leafy tops of the beets,...
Chihuly at the MFA
We visited the MFA today to see the Chihuly ‘Through the Looking Glass’ exhibit with Peter. I’ve been fascinated by Dale Chihuly’s glass installations ever since seeing a program about his installation of enormous...
What happened to the News?
A couple of days ago after reading the Boston Globe website for news I decided to take a look at what the BBC had on the homepage of its website. There in the center...
Memorial Day
The highlight of Memorial Day weekend around here is the annual softball game. This was the tenth year that Colleen and Phil have held it. Once again, the weather was great and everyone had...
Grilled Monkfish
We got our last delivery of the spring CSF today – monkfish. Monkfish is kind of nice. It comes with the head already taken off (you really don’t want to see the head), and...
Scuba is the new Golf
The Media Lab named its new director this week. Folks around the Lab are very excited to see what Joi Ito will bring to the Lab. On Tuesday after the announcement we had a...
College visits
Tom and I have been visiting some colleges in North Carolina and Virginia. Wednesday we visited Elon, which was very nice. Then we headed up to Blacksburg Virginia to see Virginia Tech. VT made...
