The recommendations started to flood in. Living in Brookline/Newton and working from home, I needed lunchtime spots that served delicious club sandwiches. Fortunately, LinkedIn and Facebook proved valuable tools in soliciting opinions, and very quickly a list was made. But working from home doesn’t necessarily mean more free time – in fact, it can be […]

We stopped at Atkins Farm in Amherst after visiting the Eric Carle museum; a wonderful treat to take our 1 year old son to a museum full of illustrations by one of his favorites. I must have read Brown Bear to him 100 times, and he just loved the buffalo and the gorilla in From Head […]

The last time we spent a week on a tropical island was in Micronesia 8 years ago. Hard to believe, Rachel and I just aren’t the “relaxing vacation” type. But when it came to taking our “Babymoon” during the end of Rachel’s second trimester, the beach was calling, and it landed us on Fiji. A […]

I didn’t need another trip to Vegas this year, but I wasn’t complaining when I heard the upcoming conference would be at Planet Hollywood. Only a 50 minute flight from Burbank, 3 nights in Las Vegas wouldn’t be the end of the world…I had never stayed at Planet Hollywood before, but its location on the […]