For the past 12 years I’ve taken the last two weeks of December off. It’s been a time of self-reflection, mood regulation, stress relief, and away to ensure I enter the new year with a fresh mindset.
Tower Hill Botanical Gardens – Free Fun Friday 2017
Tower Hill Botanic Garden teamed up with the Highland Street Foundation for their annual Free Fun Fridays initiative. The statewide program – which Tower Hill hosted on Friday, July 28, offered visitors no cost admission to many of the most treasured cultural institutions in Massachusetts. Tower Hill, set on 132 acres of formal gardens and […]
Columbus Day Weekend 2015
Columbus Day weekend is when Buells Apple Orchard hosts their annual festival. Food, frivolity, hay rides, music… nothing better. Cool crisp day was perfect for taking the family out to pick apples! My folks decided to come up, and I had already made plans to take Hope (my stepdaughter). First thing Saturday morning, we picked […]
Labor Day 2015
Hadn’t been to the beach all summer. I mentioned that to Margie, and we decided it would be great to go to York Beach in Maine for Labor Day. It was a beautiful beach day… 90+ degrees, clear, not a cloud in the sky. The only thing that could have made it perfect was if […]
Getting Some Culture – Pirates and Patriots Freedom Trail Tour
Decided to do a whole day in Boston for Independence Day. Started with the Pirates and Patriots Freedom Trail tour. Our captain, Mary Read (aka Jen), was full of tales of heroics of the infamous real life pirates that plagued the shores of the east coast. Telling tales of privateering, mutiny, and eventual capture, torture, […]
Fireworks in Boston, 2015
This year has been all about doing the things I want to try or haven’t had a chance to do. I decided to spend Independence Day in Boston. Went on the ‘Pirates and Patriots’ Freedom Trail tour. Then went to Allston-Brighton and picked up a rented kayak. Picnicked on the banks of the Esplanade with […]