Fall is one of my favourite times of year. It always has been. I don’t love the heat of a tireless summer sun but I love snuggling under a heavy wool sweater. In some ways I fear change but when it comes to the seasons that’s a whole different story. I love the changing light…
Tag: Fall
Trot Trot to Hudson: Foliage and Tasty Food in Hudson, MA
I have no idea where most of New England actually is. I hear names of towns that all sound vaguely familiar and each town seems to have a similarly named town to the North, East and West of Boston. As a family we’d head out to some small town for various festivals or occasions. Town…
Fall is Here and I Feel Like Wrapping Myself in a Plaid Wool Blanket Pie (Recipe)
Fall is here and I love it! I love the crunchy leaves beneath my feet and the chill in the air. I don’t even mind the dark encroaching on my daylight. As any good New Englander does, we let our toes freeze a little and allow the chill to creep indoors as we count up…
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…
Over the River and Onto the Cape: Thanksgiving Vacation
I love the tradition of American Thanksgiving. Even though I grew up in Canada we never celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving until this year (in Cambridge, MA USA). In Canada Thanksgiving isn’t really a holiday. We learn about the pioneers and we talk about the harvest, and maybe colour in a horn of plenty or two in…
The View from Here: New England Fall
Boats and cars at the Head of the Charles Fall colours at Fresh Pond, Cambridge Look up. A view from the water By car. On foot.
Apple Pie Green Smoothie (Recipe)
I am not usually a fan of taking one food and making it into a soup, a sandwich, a cocktail, a savory amuse bouche, a dessert, and a granola bar flavour. This week, though, the apples are plentiful, the air is cool and for some horribly mistaken reason Whole Foods is pumping fake cinnamon scent…
Mondays Are Better with Pain
Mondays can be a pain in the @$$. If you don’t start Monday off right you might feel like there’s no hope for the week ahead. Sometimes it is the little things like the milk in your coffee curdling or having the perfect cappuccino that make or break your Monday. Today, simply finding a Pain…
Put on a Pear of Socks Smoothie (Recipe)
There is a definite chill in the air today. It is the perfect weather for me to tie on my new sneakers from Planetshoes and follow the path that my #solesisters have been running on for several weeks now getting #fit4fall. For some reason I just can’t take that first physical step. We’ll get to…
Rise and Sunshine Smoothie (Recipe)
I cannot wake up this morning. My brain is as hazy as the sky. After a Montreal bagel this morning and trading in a walk for stretching I needed something to zing, zip, zap me awake. Must be time for another green smoothie. My active, as in wake up body, mind and soul, ingredients on…
Fall Sniffles Smoothie (Recipe)
I feel a cold coming on… Time to upgrade my morning with a smoothie. Olivia’s Organics was on sale at Whole Foods (Fresh Pond) so I bought a container of baby arugula for the Cat Cora salad I made last night, and I bought a container of baby spinach because we love spinach. This was…
Boston Ballet: So Much More than Nutcracker
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to the ballet. Not because I don’t love it, but I was spoiled by my “hometown” ballets in Canada and New York. After moving here, my first Boston Ballet performance was a huge disappointment. In the 90’s Boston Ballet was perhaps a little lost on the ballet…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 