These days you can find or make just about anything if you try hard enough. Between DIY instructions pinned on a Pinterest, Etsy, online shopping on big sites like Amazon and then of course all the craft fairs as well as your favourite shops, the perfect gift is out there it is just a matter…
Author: City Living (Boston)
I am a writer and cook. I write about city living, travel, food, the arts and family. I raise my family in Cambridge & Boston and share tips for throwing cocktail parties, packing lunches, having fun on the weekend without going broke or losing your sanity.
Unwrap the Layers of Monsters University this Holiday
Perhaps Halloween is the holiday of choice at Monsters University but we have Thanksgiving, Thanksgivukkah, Chanukah, and Christmas fast approaching. Monsters University just released their Blue-ray DVD sets and they make the perfect gift for all the monsters in your family big or little. If you haven’t seen it yet, save it for your next…
Halloween: The Aftermath
So here we are. On the other side of a night where we dress our children inappropriately in some way or another (too cold, as a scary being, as a branded superhero, as a career choice, a fantasy, too hot, too naked, too hidden). Our homes are filled with piles of candy on the floor…
Halloween Ready: Fun, Tasty, Healthy Pre-Halloween Feast
Okay I think I’m ready for Halloween. My priorities on this night are to: Gather with friends and neighbours so the kids can go out trick-or-treating as a group. This lets them see each other in costume and allows the more gregarious trick-or-treaters to support the quieter ones. Feed the adults and children something substantial,…
Saturday Morning Cartoons, Animated Shorts, and Bandes Dessinées
Some of us grew up sitting at arms length from the tv knobs to change the channels back and forth between the three existing stations. Others spent time adjusting bunny ears to be able to watch a show. There were hours a day when the screen was just a static blizzards. There were Saturday morning…
Food, Blogging, and Ordering off the Menu
You sit down, settle into your table, and open a menu to see what story a particular menu is going to tell. Sometimes it is a short story. Other times it’s a bit of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Occasionally it is a lesson in regional gastronomy. Every once in a while you get…
Revenge, Opium, Love & Loss at the Ballet
It is refreshing in an age when a certain pair of shoes is “to die for” and one Kardashian sister is ready to kill the other because a shirt has been borrowed without permission, to be reminded of greater tragedies. Being reminded that love, betrayal, and loss are the true tragedies in life. Love, betrayal…
Fall has Blown into Town
Fall is officially here. School children that used to float out of their cars in the morning, arms spread out like wings flying in the warm, dewy morning air, now step out and stop for a moment. Their bodies are stuck in an invisibly viscous chilled air. As if plunged head-deep into the ocean it…
Tony Maws’ Menu is Out: Dining Duck
A few weeks ago I mentioned some upcoming duck dining and now Chef Maws had put pen to paper and finalized his menu for the Hank Shaw dinner. After Tony and James Beard award-winning blog-writer of Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook Hank Shaw went ‘wild’ two years ago to celebrate Hunt, Gather, Cook, we are psyched…
Pencil It in (PIN): Weekend of October 25th
Lyndell‘s the Somerville bakery that anyone who has been in over the past century or so has a sweet spot in their heart and tooth for, is having a very special event this weekend. Starting today all day, and then more this weekend, they have Sean Collier in their hearts and minds. They hope to…
Not Just a Cookie Cutter Halloween Appetizer: Food Network’s Ghostini’s
If you are on Pinterest you know that this month there is everything from Halloween Bento boxes being sent to school with kiddos, fun Halloween cocktails for grown ups to enjoy while others indulge in their favorite childhood candies. Every food channel, magazine, local restaurant and bakery is celebrating the flavours of the season as…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 