Periodically you have to shut off the glowing screens, break out from your patterns of eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, and remember the things that matter. For the last few days we’ve been lucky to have family from Portugal in town. …
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Beside the River
Stop Three: a place a spent my childhood summers sailing on a winding river verged with thick greenery like stands of broccoli florets. A place where colonials malcontents dumped British tea into the river just as Bostonians had. A place…
Break Bread With Family
This holiday season, take some time to sit down with family and friends to celebrate the simple act of breaking bread together. Communal dining may be one of our species’ most basic activities, and what better way to celebrate the…
Family Time over the Holidays
So what if the economy fell in the toilet, attempted to climb out, and is being flushed down again? So what if unemployment is knocking on everyone’s door? So what if the current U.S. congress is rendering themselves obsolete by…
Family First
Last night, up to my elbows in soapy dinner dishes, I was listening to a radio program about couples using economics as a basis for therapy. The show’s guests had written a book about how modern couples often come home,…
Family at the Holidays
There really is no substitute for family. Good or bad, many or few, family is family. Toddler Harbat is overjoyed to have family in town. Last week it was my sister and future brother-in-law, this week it’s her grandparents. These…
