Remember back in 2012 when I started this whole blog and Ingrid was the Infamous Number 4 at the time? Whether she was getting lost at the town beach or getting pissed that she had to go back to school or doing a Spartan Race with a broken elbow or catching critters outside… she always […]
boarding school
Boarding School
About four-and-a-half years ago I was at a swim meet with Kristofer and Ingrid at MIT. There were a bunch of teams there from Massachusetts and New York and Connecticut. As luck would have it, my college roommate and swim teammate (who lives on Nantucket) was at the meet with her son (who is the […]
The First Week
It’s been a week since I watched Number 4 walk away from the existence we had known for the last fourteen years and into a new phase of life. Last Friday I dropped her off at boarding school for her freshman year of high school. This was not something I ever envisioned doing. I imagined […]