Dear Family and Friends,
Happy Holidays and almost 2020! We hope your year has been filled with love, joy, and adventure. See here for our holiday card and here for our 3-minute holiday video.
Our most recent news is that Analiza transitioned from EHTP and just accepted a position as Executive Director for Neighborhood Charter Schools (NCS), a small network of charter schools in the Bronx and Harlem. NCS has a strong academic and social-emotional model and particularly caters to students with autism. She is thrilled and will start in December.
Alex is now into his third year in the Treasury at Bank of America, focused on liquidity risk.
And on the family front, our theme for 2019 has been…
We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re gonna catch a big one. What a beautiful day. We’re not scared!
Although Analiza is often scared…
Our cheesy bear pun updates:
- Analiza and Alex are bearly keeping up with Bryson (7) and Scarlet (3). Bryson blazed by us long ago with chess (he won 8th at nationals) and will likely be able to ski blacks with us this season. Scarlet enjoys swimming (even tries to dive) and rock climbing after her brother and will start skiing this year.
- After seeing almost no books for kids with Asian role models, Bryson and Analiza published their children's book Asian-Americans Who Inspire Us. It has been a bear of a project, and we hope you will check it out!
- Analiza and Alex went on a kidless trip to Slovenia and Croatia and ran into a mama grizzly and her 3 cubs. More here.
- On a Disney cruise, we got to see grizzlies up close again while in Alaska. Analiza opted for the Do It Yourself option, booking a seaplane and getting dropped off in the wild with seven grizzlies. More here.
- Less bears but more mosquitoes and horse flies. Welcome to our canoe trip in Maine for a week. On the plus side, we camped next to a waterfall and spotted lots of wildlife including a moose! More here.
- Analiza had to bear with her Antarctica trip getting canceled yet again. She, Bryson and her family did a substitute trip to South Korea, the North Korean border, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Bryson got to feed a crocodile, stick his finger in a honey comb filled with bees, and drive a boat through the Floating Village! More here.
- Bryson’s grandma took Bryson to Hawaii to learn about Pearl Harbor. Analiza crossed her fingers that Bryson’s bathtub snorkeling practice would suffice, and thankfully he stayed afloat swimming with dolphins and manta rays. Bryson even got to feed some octopus and check out whales up close. More here.
- A bear of a Taquitz rock climb. Alex forgot our tent poles (not too terrible) AND Analiza’s rock climbing harness (pretty terrible). Alex’s suggestion, “How about wearing some slings instead?’” Slings = nylon rubber bands. Analiza responded, “No thank you” (or maybe not so polite). Add to that climbing in 100 degree weather and scaling a tree covered in fiery red ants. More here.
- Finally, Alex and Analiza bearly survived our two year gut renovation - and are miraculously still happily married.
Closing out to save you from more polarizing puns. Wishing you a Beary Happy New Year!
Love and hugs,
Analiza, Alex, Bryson & Scarlet
23 East 10th St Apt 227 NY NY 10003
