Blogs

San Francisco has been getting publicity lately for becoming the first major American city to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags – if only in large grocery stores and pharmacies. The Boston […]

American robin. This spring, a family of robins built a nest at my parents’ house in Marshfield. There is nothing unusual about robins nesting here on the South Shore, however, […]

A common sighting: wild turkeys in the road. On a recent Sunday morning, a neighbor saw a turkey pecking at my dad’s home-office door in Marshfield. Across town, I spied […]

Last month I wrote about “Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Stop Global Warming,” and in the past I’ve referenced other ways to reduce one’s impact on the planet. […]

“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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]