After the morning photos of 1st Day of school grins, with relative sizes of backpacks, levels of toothlessness, what is there? Well, these days there is the requisite Facebook status update, or Instagram photo, and then we head our separate ways to home, to work, to our PureBarre classes, and various non-traditional workspaces. Then comes…
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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.
Looking Forward: Changing Seasons & New Routines
I don’t remember getting new outfits, backpacks or lunch boxes each year for school. There were no #BTS haircuts, shopping trips, Instagram photos at the bus. My mom was not a shopper nor was she a photographer iPhone, 35 mm film, Polaroid or not. I still got the ‘back to school’ butterflies and excitement nonetheless….
The Ebb and Flow of a Vacation
Whether you watched the tides go out and come in, or you went to the city, or mountains or valleys, like every day, a vacation has its own ebb and flow. Really, each day has an ebb and flow, as does each year, each season. To every action there is a reaction and sometimes the…
Size Matters: Sand, Stars, and NPR
On the beach today we play and live science, unforced, just curious…. (Made with Rhonna Designs.) Luckily, as the children sit buried toe to waist in sand, I can grab my phone and Google brings me to NPR for some insights. Which Is Greater, The Number Of Sand Grains On Earth Or Stars In The…
Learning Beyond School: Classes, Enrichment and After School
I miss the days of playing in our street until dusk. Until, one by one, groups of siblings were called in for bath, dinner, bed. As a parent, I miss the afternoon gatherings of parents and babies, toddlers, tykes at the playground to prolong the inevitable arrival of ‘the witching hour’. Once school and after…
The App Life: Ink
I love my apps. Most of them are not games but I have fun playing. It’s just that I like to play with photos and social media. The rest of them are tools for my work/life and games for the kids. One of the newest apps that I love is Ink. I have always loved…
Throwback Thursday: Riding Snow in Vermont
It’s Throwback Thursday so I thought I’d share a picture from the days when I was not afraid I’d throw out my back doing cool things. I was always a x-country skier but in college my then future husband taught me to snowboard. Here I am at Mount Snow (I think) with our Jamaica, VT…
Sincerely, your fortune cookie
Cleaning up one’s desk it is not only an exercise in sorting, cleansing, purging and organizing, but in philosophy as well. Here is the little bit of ‘food for thought’ I came across while sorting through the mountain if collected crap that all gets deposited on my desk). I think it’s the perfect thought as…
Once in a blue moon…
What I love about “once in a blue moon…” is that it is carefree. It is not wistful. It has no sense of regret or hunger for more. It just is. And tonight, in the sky there it is… that blue moon
Would you rather…: Birthday Edition
Always keeping me smiling… in between mommy meltdowns of course!
Summer Tomato: Unrequited Love
You can’t inhale and your breath might catch when you bite into a true summer tomato. Our Lindentree farm csa summer tomatoes are finally here. You bite into it and there is no space to breathe because it is so full if flavour. There are no empty bits that blankly slide over your taste buds….
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 