Beantown

It turns out that Boston is surprisingly easy to navigate and I had a great weekend up there.

First, meeting with the folks at the Jean Baker Miller Training Insitute went very well. The research they have been doing for years is very relevant to my book.

 I learned a lot when I was there, including more about Relational-Cultural theory, as well as about some new work on neuroscience that reveals we are actually wired for connection. They would like to collaborate with me in the future. And most of all, they were an extremely nice and very smart group of people.

I also became a mini-expert on the "T" - that's what they call the subway - and visited places I had never seen. Being with The Boy was heaven. We almost always have a great time together and this was no exception. We had a number of adventures,including a wild bus ride (try to avoid actual travel with The Boy - he is cursed) and watching a regatta on the Charles River.

Probably my favorite spot was the Harvard Book Store. I could just move into that place. It's enormous, beautifully laid out and incredibly inviting. We had so much fun checking out the different sections, discussing books we had and hadn't read, checking out book jackets (I'm thinking about the copy on mine), etc. etc. Yes, we are nerds, but we are proud.