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Have you visited our website, www.the-e-list.com? I think there's plenty there to interest you: our business directory listings of our favorite local businesses (searchable by town or category), our events calendar stocked with sales, openings, Read more

I'm an enthusiastic cook, but I don't bother much in the summer. Mainly, I "assemble". Dinner, most nights, is a piece of chicken, fish or an occasional, irresistible hot dog on the grill and fresh-from-the-farmer's-market salad. The first cool  Read more

When we bought our house in Lyme, that’s all there was -- a charmer of a Cape, all by its lonesome, bereft of a garage, barn or outbuilding. Then we spent the next nine years arguing over where exactly to build the barn (they're not called garages  Read more

What a great summer! The highlight? A mother/daughter, college-visiting road trip. Four days in a car with my teen could have caused some fireworks, but no! We had a blast and ended our trip with a stop at Mass MoCA. If you haven't yet visited, go!  Read more

During the summer, my friend Jamie always wears a swimsuit under her clothes. I can't fully express how much I love this. Such optimism! Such spontaneity! The belief that at any moment, the opportunity for a swim might arise. It reveals the essential Read more

The race is on to pack as much summer fun into the next six weeks as possible! Outdoor concerts, farmer's markets, a slew of new recipes and a stab at the stack of books on my bedside table. See Hairspray at the Ivoryton, Carousel at the Goodspeed  Read more

I absolutely love the Annual Reader’s Poll. After doling out my two cents all year long, it’s great to find out what you think AND I always discover some new “bests” to check out. Most fun of all is reading the answers to “anything we’ve forgotten”.  Read more

A career in fashion had me in NYC monthly and kept me current on hotspots and buzzy restaurants. It's been five years since I quit the industry and I'm completely out of the loop. But I still need a city fix now and then, and I just  Read more

My sisters and I grew up in Cambridge in the 60's and 70’s. Our childhood was freewheeling and mainly unsupervised, but influenced by a steady stream of artists, intellectuals, peace corps volunteers and other characters that my parents picked up  Read more

My hair is an unruly mop: wavy here, straight there and a bit of frizz at the back. Yikes! I'm into as little maintenance as possible and I've worn it short since I was a teen. My do goes  Read more