For Christmas, Maya gifted Jeanine an all-day metalworking class where students learned to shape metal into art using anticlastic forming, which involves manipulating the metal to create saddle-like, ruffled and organic forms. The mother-daughter activity produced several earrings, in both copper and silver, as well as components for a wind chime.

Kyle departed Boston this morning, destined for a week in Jamaica. He is traveling there with three friends from his running club to soak up the sun and enjoy a bit of snorkeling. It has become his routine to vacation in the tropics to break up our frigid New England winters.