The first time I came to Boston, it was March, and snowy, and FREEZING. So on our one day in central Boston, our group didn’t visit Boston Common. So I had no idea how wonderful it was until a few weeks ago. (Bethany had told me it was lovely – she described sitting on it […]
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boston haunts: boston common
Posted in musings, travel, tagged Boston, Boston Common, parks on October 5, 2010| 4 Comments »
Trolley days
Posted in musings, travel, tagged Boston, commute, daily life, Dorchester, Mattapan, MBTA, public transit, trolley on February 8, 2018| 12 Comments »
I’ve been a Boston commuter for seven years now. Every weekday, I travel north from Dorchester (until last summer, it was Quincy) to Harvard Square. I used to disembark on the Boston Common when I worked at Emerson College, but for nearly five years, I’ve been riding across the river to my Cambridge neighborhood. Most […]
The nest and the cage
Posted in musings, tagged city life, everyday life, home, Julia Cameron on July 8, 2015| 9 Comments »
For me, living in New York is a tricky balancing act. Daily, I must leave the cage of my apartment and venture out into the city. Then, I must get in, out of the city, back to my apartment nest. The cage/nest contradiction is a constant one. It goes with the urban terrain. The […]
Sisters in Boston
Posted in musings, travel, tagged Boston, family, fun, sisters on September 17, 2014| 5 Comments »
I turned thirty-one on Monday, and it was a lovely day full of good wishes from friends, family, colleagues, and some fun surprises from my husband. But just before that, I got an extra-special pre-birthday present: my sister came to visit. She had planned to come with my brother-in-law, but he was felled by a […]
Boston Mini-Tour: History
Posted in musings, travel, tagged Boston, cemeteries, churches, Freedom Trail, history, John Adams, parks, Paul Revere, summer, U.S.S. Constitution on June 17, 2013| 6 Comments »
I get a lot of questions from blog readers, real-life friends and some people who fit into both categories about “must-sees” in the Boston area. These questions ramp up in the summer, when the travel urge hits America and the tourists descend in hordes. I love playing tour guide (real or virtual). So I’ve put […]
The in-between season
Posted in musings, tagged hope, seasons, spring, waiting, winter on March 27, 2013| 5 Comments »
Here we are again, in the in-between season, when the calendar says spring but the weather still says winter. I open the blinds in the morning and peer out into a gray and brown world, then reach for the bottle of Vitamin D pills in the medicine cabinet, next to my moisturizer. I wrap up […]
Cold weather
Posted in books, musings, tagged Boston, cold, E.B. White, New England, quotes, seasons, winter on February 27, 2013| 2 Comments »
There has been more talk about the weather around here this year than common, but there has been more weather to talk about. For about a month now we have had solid cold—firm, business-like cold that stalked in and took charge of the countryside as a brisk housewife might take charge of someone else’s kitchen […]
A new neighborhood
Posted in books, food, musings, travel, tagged Boston, Cambridge, seasons, transitions, work on February 20, 2013| 21 Comments »
For almost exactly two years, I have worked in downtown Boston, across from the two green spaces that are the beating heart of this city. I climb up out of the subway station in the morning to the tune of the church bells at Park Street (if I time it just right), and I walk […]
After the storm
Posted in musings, travel, tagged Boston, snow, winter on February 13, 2013| 8 Comments »
The mounds of snow are slowly shrinking, their top layers melting away under the gentle warmth of the afternoon sun. The sidewalks are dark with water, the gutters swollen with it. Everything freezes again overnight, leaving thin, treacherous layers of black ice over sidewalks and curbs and parking lots in the morning. Along the roads, […]
Winter survival: getting through it
Posted in musings, tagged Boston, brave, seasons, winter on January 23, 2013| 13 Comments »
The best way out is always through. —Robert Frost It. Is. So. Cold. That’s almost all I’ve been able to think about, since the latest cold front swept in on Monday night and left us with a weather forecast of highs in the twenties or teens, and lows in the teens or single digits, all […]
cakes, tea and dreams 