A Month to Remember: January 2026

Have we really made it to the end of January already? While January typically feels like the longest month out of the year given the frigid temperatures in places like here at home in New England, people participating in “Dry January” and everyone doing their best to not give up on their resolutions before February […]

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Birthday Witch…

Greetings from The Snowpocalypse! Although there had been a brief lull in the storm when I sat down to start writing this post this morning, it’s now coming down yet again here in Western Massachusetts. While the snowfall isn’t nearly as heavy as yesterday’s, it looks like this current part of the storm is set […]

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Ice Castles, Fish Shacks, and So Much Celebrating…

To say I’m overwhelmed by the outpouring of love, excitement, and well-wishes over the course of the last couple of days for my birthday would be an understatement. While I had expected calls and texts from my family and closest friends as I entered my forties, what I hadn’t planned on was the volume of […]

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Ten Lessons From My Thirties…

As wild as it is to me to be typing this right now, today is my last official day of my thirties – with tomorrow marking my grand entrance into the big “4-0” – an age, new decade, and era I truly wasn’t sure I was going to make it to, especially in my wilder […]

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Birthday Parties and Presents Galore…

Is it possible to get just one more day of this past weekend to stretch into today so that I can sleep a little later and recover from a couple of busy days spent with some of my dearest friends and family? It’s not that I don’t want to go to work and get things […]

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Marble House and Milestone Birthdays…

August has been such a busy month for me that I’m still in a state of disbelief that it’s almost over. I’ve had to remind myself a few times in recent weeks that it’s perfectly acceptable to stop and take a breath or a break from time to time – but I’ve been having so […]

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A Taste of the Tropics…

I love a good birthday celebration, whether it’s my own or for any of my friends and family – and both planning and participating in dinners, parties and outings for the people I care about most in this life is one of my favorite things to do. Luckily, April is filled with birthdays – particularly […]

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A Month to Remember: January 2025

January is one of those months that, year after year, always feels like it takes a lifetime to get through. I’ve seen a lot of memes on social media in recent days that are in the style of “it’s only January 45th!” that crack me up, and make me feel a little better since I […]

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