“An Inconvenient Truth” recently won the Academy award for Best Documentary Feature. If you haven’t seen the movie, it is essentially Al Gore giving a presentation on global warming. The […]
Development on the South Shore
The Jose Carreiro Woodland in Marshfield could have easily been a housing development, if not for the longterm dedicated efforts of concerned citizens and the town’s Community Preservation Committee. Back […]
Marshfield’s Puddle Wharf Conservation Area
Thanks to the Marshfield Trailheads, a community organization dedicated to improving access to local open space lands, I have discovered a new nature preserve. While perusing the Trailheads’ (www.marshfieldtrailheads.org) website, […]
Avoiding Nature Deficit Disorder
Bay Farm, on the Kingston-Duxbury line, is a favorite spot for families. My son, Abel, who is seven months old, loves to go for walks outdoors. When we step into […]
Pembroke’s Canoe Club Preserve
What a delight to discover a new place to walk! You’d never know it, but behind the new Pembroke Pointe Shopping Plaza (at the junction of Routes 53 and 139 […]
Some Thoughts on New Motherhood
My husband and I welcomed Abel, our much-anticipated first child, into the world in mid-May. I was blessed with an easy, even blissful, pregnancy, during which I felt healthy and […]
South River Walks
Among the waterways of the South Shore, the North River is much more well-known than its sister, The South. Visible from major highways like Routes 3 and 3A, the North […]
Becoming Sisters
On a sunny Saturday in early August, my sister Marnie and I took Abel, my almost-three-month-old son, for his first walk at the Norris Reservation in Norwell. For the most […]
Dogs in the Woods
A trail intersection at Two Mile Farm in North Marshfield. My first child was born this past May, on the first sunny day after a week of rainstorms. The sun […]
The Ant Farm That Wasn’t
When my husband, Chris, was growing up, he really wanted an ant farm. But his mother, squeamish about hosting a family of insects in her home, would not allow it. […]