Of all the things I am in terms of my heritage and where my family originates from, French-Canadian and English pretty much take up the bulk of the percentages, and while there’s the smallest of small amounts of Irish in me on my mother’s side – it’s not nearly enough to count. It never stopped […]
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The temperatures have been pleasantly higher here in New England these past few days, resulting in most of the accumulated snow and ice from both January and February finally beginning to melt away (revealing the pavement and a LOT of potholes in the roads) and myself starting to brave the outdoors with less layers than […]
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When I’d initially sat down to write this post over this past weekend, I truly wasn’t sure if it was something I should actually publish or not. I’d heard a quote in recent years that went along the lines of something like “stop letting bad people live in your head rent-free“, and I absolutely believe […]
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What do you do when you need to drive to the Canadian border (and back!) within the same day to complete a Global Entry interview for upcoming international travel, but you and your friend are absolutely famished by the time you’re done getting fingerprinted and photographed for Customs and the closest Tim Hortons is already […]
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I had mentioned in my last post that we just kicked off Maple Season here in the Pioneer Valley – one of my favorite traditions as a lifelong New Englander, but even more so now that I’ve been living right on the border of states like Vermont and New Hampshire for the past few years. […]
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This past Saturday marked one of the first genuinely warm and sunny days we’ve had here in New England in quite some time. It also marked the beginning of Maple Season here in New England, with many of our local sugar houses offering pancake breakfasts, syrup sampling, and plenty of freshly-made products and goodies for […]
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And just like that – we’ve reached the end of another month, and it’s time to start updating my planner and calendars for March! While I’ve got so much lined up in the next few weeks and plenty to talk about and share – I want to take a few minutes to give a tip […]
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When sitting down to compile this month’s assortment of “Favorite Things”, I realized that the majority of what I loved and obsessed over throughout February were things that I had watched in-between working, making travel arrangements over the next couple of months, and brushing eight storms’ worth of snow and ice off of my car […]
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Coffee & Chiffon 