Any weekend where I can take some time to actually unwind, rest, and enjoy the simple pleasure of not having set, specific plans is a win in my book – and I thoroughly appreciate and enjoy them as they are far and few between in my adulthood. Although I began the process of doing some […]
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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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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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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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It can prove to be difficult to make any short or long-term plans here in New England, particularly in the Winter when the weather is at it’s most unpredictable. I have a flight planned to North Carolina this coming weekend, and I have been obsessively and frantically checking the forecasts and radars for any inclination […]
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It’s not often I get snowed in while visiting my mom in Central Massachusetts. In recent years, I’m usually at my apartment or in my neighborhood within the Pioneer Valley when the bigger storms hit – and I pass the time waiting for plows and sanders by binge-watching comfort movies or my favorite television series, […]
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Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Although this will be another year where Troy and I will be celebrating our relationship and all things love and romance from opposite sides of the country, that doesn’t mean I can’t treat myself to some of the typical fanfare that comes with today’s holiday – like taking myself out to […]
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Coffee & Chiffon 