When I was a teenager, fifteen or sixteen, I visited Old Orchard Beach in Maine for the very first time with my best friend from high school. She was going away for a week – a tradition she’d told me about and one that had happened every Summer since she was little – and wanted […]
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This past Sunday, when I found myself in Connecticut for an impromptu adventure, including a riverside hike and a tour of a quirky castle (I’ll get into that within the next couple of days because it was honestly so unexpected and amazing!), I had been winding through the small, picturesque town of Chester on my […]
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Every once in a while I’ll see those click-bait headlines come across my social media algorithm that read something like “Legislators Pushing For a Four-Day Work-Week!” or “Politicians Debating Making All Mondays a Federal Holiday!” and although it’ll likely be something I’ll never see in my lifetime (or the next), I wish more than anything […]
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When it comes to celebrating my mom for Mother’s Day, she’s pretty laid-back and chill about plans. All three of her children are grown, and while one of my brothers has been living in Florida for a couple of years now, my other brother and I are still within a reasonable driving distance to see […]
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Although the unofficial start to the Summer season doesn’t begin until Memorial Day Weekend (for me, anyway!) I’ve already caught myself dreaming of weekends on the Cape and day trips up to New Hampshire and Maine to spend time by the ocean. After such a dreadful Winter weather-wise, it’s what has been keeping me going […]
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It’s been a pretty busy week for me so far, what with Marathon Monday having taken place a couple of days ago, a lot of commitments and deadlines to meet at work in the coming days, the usual errands to run and being in the thick of Spring cleaning my apartment, closet, and car (I’m […]
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Every once in a while, I like to do a little experiment here on ‘Coffee & Chiffon’ when it comes to featuring beloved local (and occasionally not-so-local) hotspots. That experiment, entitled “Operation: Once The Influencers Leave” is pretty self-explanatory. I visit a place that had previously been overrun with people trying to capture/share a photo […]
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With my boyfriend traveling back to the West Coast as of yesterday to prepare for some upcoming and exciting career moves, I wanted to make sure I was fully present and savoring my last couple of days with him here in New England, hence why this post is going up today instead of on Wednesday […]
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