Living every day like it’s
my birthday.

How my garden grows

In the last handful of years I have developed a serious passion for gardening. What started as a way to get some fresh vegetables while enjoying the feat of growing them myself, has blossomed into a tradition of starting plants from seeds, making upgrades to 2 gardens that have grown to total around 500 sq ft, and most recently my completion of the URI Master Gardener program.

Postmodern man

Growing up I spent a lot of time at my Grandparent’s house, where it seemed they kept every home decor item and widget from the last 50 years boxed away in the basement. At some point I started going through those boxes, finding all sorts of interesting objects. Things from when they bought the house in the 1950’s, from when my Mom was a teen in the 60’s, stuff from the ceramics shop they owned in the 70’s, even some of my own childhood toys from the 80’s and 90’s had found there way down there. It’s no surprise then that I have a love and appreciation of objects and ephemera from the postmodern era.

The family archivist

Thanks to a love of history and my Grandma’s trust in me as a thoughtful keeper of things, I have found myself the semi-official family archivist. This means cataloging, storing, and scanning the many meaningful items a family produces through the years, like photographs and address books, letters from distant relatives, and even my Grandpa’s WW2 Navy papers and uniform. In the last year I’ve made a serious effort to scan many of the thousands of family photos and paper documents I’ve been entrusted with.