Brookline artist Janet Echelman has had everyone looking up, through and beyond with her fibre art sculpture, As If It Were Already Here, that hangs above the Rose Kennedy Greenway. While Echelman’s piece still evokes awe and wonder from those who see it in person or in photographs, in a way it does feel as…
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Salem Loves Fall: I Love Seafood
Salem is a hot spot come fall, but there’s much more to it than witches and witch hunts. We love to go to Salem for the Peabody Essex Museum, where right now you can also check out something way more powerful and intriguing than witches (well at least as intriguing): The Strandebeest. There is also…
Back to School & Back in Time: American Girl Grace Thomas Train Ride
As children are making the transition from carefree summer days to the structured days of school, you don’t have to put away your suitcases and bathing suits quite yet. School-free weekdays may be over, but it’s still summer outside and a weekend trip here or there is a great way to tiptoe towards fall. Easing back into reading…
Ballet is for Everyone: Boston Ballet Open House
Ballet is one of the greatest misunderstood sports and that is no accident because it is also an art. Whatever the reason your child first steps into a dance studio, the power of ballet for any child, of any age, whether they dream of becoming the ethereal ballerina they’ve seen on stage or they just…
Dine Like a Parisian in Cambridge: It’s not the food it’s how you do it.
As a child I lived in France for two years, although I didn’t have cocktail hour then, I understood the habits of dining à la Française. In France, at the time, we had two hours for lunch at school. Most children went home to have their main meal of the day then with their…
A CSA Recipe: Simple Kohlrabi Salad
I love kohlrabi and before we started our CSA many years ago, I had never eaten before. Now, I look forward to seeing it sitting in the CSA baskets in the cool pick up area around the corner from the tree swing and hammock. This simple recipe is a great way to enjoy the slightly…
Posto Mobile Pizza Food Truck: Come for the Pizza and Keep the Sauce
Pizza really is the best fast food available. The problem is that it isn’t always fast and it isn’t always made from the best ingredients. If you can find a place that makes it well, they have the right ingredients and the right equipment. In the Boston area (Boston’s South End, Cambridge, Somerville), we have…
#SwitchersRemorse: Independence, Nationality and The 4th of July
I didn’t have a say when we picked up our life and moved away. It wasn’t the first time I’d had to adjust to a big cross-country move. I came home from my job at a performing arts camp one day and my parents casually told me, “We’re moving to New York.” and then…
Busting Out of Little Kid-ness at Dave & Busters
When the kids were little we went to Chuck E. Cheese’s a handful of times. It was always a special treat because they knew it wasn’t the kind of place I like to go to or take them to. On stormy winter days or sweltering hot summer afternoons, Chuck E. Cheese was a break for…
Elephant Walks Between Two Slices of Bread: New Lunch Options in the South End
The Elephant Walk is known for it’s unique bicultural (yet not fusion) French and Cambodian menus. Whether you order off the French side of the menu or the Cambodian side, my friends and I each have our favorite Elephant Walk dishes that we order again and again for dinner. I tend to think of it…
The Trouble With Letting Go
I’m a pretty sensitive person and it’s taken me years to build up the callouses life requires. It’s odd, in some ways I’m really good at letting things roll off my back. Yet, for many things that I know I should not hold on to I clench in my fist and it takes me a…
Growing Season is Here: Now Just Add Cooking
Just as the farms are starting to grow some delicious things for us to eat here in New England (or to be fair the greenhouses are doing a lot of the work right now), the kids’ schedules are going crazy. From end of year events, special meetings, concerts, recitals and ball games, planning for dinner…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 