If you want to see Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus this holiday season, I suggest you head over to the Gift and Garden Center of Hollandia Nurseries in Bethel, Connecticut. Fairfield County’s largest premiere garden center, it was founded in a small 2-car garage by Hans & Sally Reelick in April of 1964. Now it […]
After taking some time off and flying to the other side of the world to deal with a personal loss, I am back in the blogosphere. Well, as Stefanos Tsitsipas recently tweeted “Life is a series of events teaching us how to let go.” And most of the time, you don’t have a choice. Back […]
Every year or so we go back to Maine and this year was no different. After two years of the pandemic, the pent-up demand for travel could be felt even in those places where we would normally go in search of peace and solitude. Keeping that in mind, we drove all the way to Acadia […]
We went to this amazing show at the Danbury Railway Museum on a summer Saturday. They had vintage cars, good food, lively music, an axe throwing booth and of course, the museum itself. If you have kids who love trains, the museum is a must. It has train rides, morse code puzzles, model trains, artifacts, […]
The moment I stumbled upon this line from Emily Dickinson I went into deep thought about how we lose ourselves bit by bit everyday, and how we should go about finding our true selves, with or without lanterns. I liked the line so much I dug up the original letter where as it turns out […]
Last month Kevin Kelly turned 70 and as is the norm with him, he has jotted down 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known I have cherry-picked the ones I liked the most! Here you go: Don’t keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes. Anything you say before the word […]