What It's Like To Live Now*

West Hartford, Connecticut, and Points Beyond

Last Updated: September 4, 2005

The big news this summer from the Reger-Folta crowd is our Summer Vacation to Yellowstone National Park! Gary and the kids actually drove about 6000 miles total there and back! Edie, along with her sister Ellen and her kids, met us out there for a week of backpacking and sightseeing. The web site is far from complete, but take a look -- we'll keep building it!

We took advantage of a week off school here in West Hartford in late February to make a trip to Edie's ancestral homeland. Alison presents the fun in the Hotel in Virginia!

We have returned from our wonderful year overseas in Athens, Greece. It's back to normal now -- work for Edie and Gary, school for Alison and Caroline. But life brings changes; Alison starts a new school, Caroline a new grade. We really liked keeping a web diary of our lives for our friends in the US while we were in Greece, and we hope that the more mundane experiences of life back home will hold some interest for all our friends we have left behind in Greece.

Part of our hearts will remain always in Greece. You can get a good sense of some of the things that charmed us in George Vecsey's Postcards, a feature in the New York Times by a sports writer in Athens for the Olympics. He has a great eye for telling detail and a refreshing taste for daily life.

The official West Hartford web page will tell you more than you probably want to know about our home town. Elizabeth Park (shared by Hartford and West Hartford), the oldest public rose garden in the U.S. to which we return in full bloom. The West Hartford Land Trust seeks to preserve opne space in our town, which has been developed almost to the breaking point. Pressure increases on property taxes, and has led more and more to proposals to turn "non-productive" space into tax-generating developments -- witness Blue Back Square.

You can read about Gary's workplace at the Trinity College web site (Gary has his own web site too) and Edie's at the Dyno Nobel site.

In Greece, the kids attended fifth and second grades at Byron College. Here in West Hartford, Alison now starts King Philip Middle School, known

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to one and all as "KP". Caroline returns to Morley Elementary School.

You can relive our memories of our Year in Greece, too!

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A few words about Alison's Low Key Birthday!

Alison is in time to participate in fifth grade graduation!

*With apologies to Meredith Maran, author of What It's Like to Live Now, a book about her day-to-day life in 1980s San Francisco, carving out a place for herself as a divorced lesbian with kids. Now alas long out of print and pretty hard to find.