I confess, I love visiting the Franklin Park Zoo in winter. True, the giraffes, the budgies, and the other warm-weather animals are in their winter enclosures and off-exhibit. You have to visit the farm animals in the barn, rather than … Continue reading
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. At the beginning of the summer, my daughter asked me where she could go to dig for dinosaur bones. We had visited the tracks at the Nash Dinosaur Track Site … Continue reading
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. Signs posted around Jamaica Pond declare it to be part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace. For years, I had assumed from this that it was a man-made pond, dug under the … Continue reading
Last spring, when I was experiencing an extreme case of Cape deprivation, my husband and daughter very kindly agreed to come with me on a day-trip to the Cape. We decided to visit the Sandwich Glass Museum because it was … Continue reading
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Another in our ongoing series, What We Did This Summer. (Yeah, I know this is clearly What We Did this Spring, but our family considers our annual spring picnic in the Boston Public Garden to be the kick-off event of … Continue reading
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. OK, so maybe we haven’t really been to the Boston Museum of Science 43 times this year, but sometimes when I’m waiting while my daughter digs in the midden for … Continue reading
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. While we were tooling around the Monadnock region this summer, we stumbled upon a rather amazing toy store hidden behind an unassuming store front in a strip mall in Peterborough, … Continue reading
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer. One of my favorite parts of living in small town America is the fact that for a dollar, you and your child can march in the Fourth of July Children’s … Continue reading
The first in our ongoing series of posts on What We Did This Summer. As you may remember, one of our more memorable road trips this summer was to a berry picking farm in New Hampshire. Monadnock Berries is a … Continue reading
My birthday falls at the end of July, and the timing of it has always made me a bit plaintive. Growing up in the South, my birthday was tainted by the realization that there were only a few short weeks … Continue reading
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