Local Loves: Deviant Donuts

I am an advocate and activist when it comes to celebrating life’s little wins and accomplishments with a “Sweet Treat.” Made it through a tough day at work? Sweet treat. Ran all of your errands without procrastinating (too much?) Sweet treat. The forecast called for rain but the sun is shining instead? Sweet treat. Life […]

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Springtime Snacks: Goat Cheese and Honey Bites

The recent round of rainy, chilly, early Spring nights have been spent in the comfort of my apartment watching bad karate movies or scrolling through upcoming seasonal events in and around New England and updating my calendar with my boyfriend while curled up in bed or cuddling on the couch. Of course, we have to […]

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Scenes From St. Patrick’s Day…

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day looks a lot different for me now than it did back in my early twenties. Knowing that I don’t have nearly enough Irish in my bloodline for me to celebrate the holiday in any actual meaningful or poignant way – I used to just lean into the binge-drinking, green-wearing, parade-hopping and […]

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Waffles and Robert Frost…

With Troy finishing packing up the last of his belongings from his childhood home this past Saturday, that left our Sunday wide open for a daytime adventure. Given that he was still pretty spent from all the driving and boxing/unboxing in recent days, he generously stepped back and let me take full control of how […]

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Springtime Sweets: No-Churn Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

With all the snow and ice we’ve had in recent days/weeks, some of which I’m still digging my car out of, the last thing I would typically want to eat around this time is a chilled dessert. Give me all of the hot soups, chilis, dips and cocoa – but anything frozen? It would usually […]

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Prepping and Provisions…

I’m excited that today is my designated “half day” at my job, something I’ve negotiated as a weekly occurrence – not only because it serves as a nice mini break in the middle of the week, which has been quite busy and snowy thus far – but because my boyfriend is flying in this afternoon […]

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A Month to Remember: February 2026

Although February is, of course, the shortest month of the year – I’m still a little dumbfounded that it’s ending in just a couple of days. It feels like it was just yesterday I was getting my Valentine’s Day dΓ©cor out of storage to spruce up my apartment for the month, and now I’m tasked […]

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A Few of My Favorite Things: February 2026

As we start to gradually wind down the month of February and I begin setting my goals and intentions for March, it’s about that time for me to pause and reflect on some of my favorite things from these past few weeks – and with February being the month of Valentine’s Day and sweeping, romantic […]

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