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The Chill of Fall Brings Reflections of Septembers Gone By

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A chilly morning, closing windows as we got up. Only 57 degrees out there. Wow. Today’s high will be 81, but it sure feels like fall.  It never fails, that in all of my 57 years, I’ve always had that familiar rejuvenation of an oncoming September. Memories, gauzy, but still […]

Share Good News When You Have It, I Say

Growing kale, squash, tomatoes, peppers, and a lot more in South Deerfield, MA.

I have a lot of great things to report, and I am happy to be the bearer of good news, not bad.  The first great thing is about GoNOMAD.com — our new design is really working. The bounce rate is now down below 20 %, where before it was drastically […]

Grand Manan Island is the Richest Island in Canada

The Hole in the Wall, a strange formation along the coast of Grand Manan island. We saw it by land and by sea

We’ve spent the past few days about 20 miles off the coast of New Brunswick, on Grand Manan Island, pronounced Grand Ma-NAAN.  After kayaking along the shore, viewing the famous Hole in the Wall, a dramatic rock formation on the shoreline, and meeting several locals and visitors, we’ve learned a […]

New Brunswick: Where Have You Been All Our Lives?

Swallowtail Light, at the north end of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.

We scrambled down a wooden walkway and across a grassy path, on our way to a scenic lighthouse out on the northern tip of Grand Manan Island.  As we gazed out at the Passamaquoddy Bay, with the light glinting off the water, I turned to my partner Mary and gushed […]

Riding Off Kilter by the Ocean in Saint Andrews

Riding bikes in Kilts with Off Kilter Bike Tours, in St Andrews, New Brunswick.

We met a man in a kilt yesterday–and he made us put on kilts too! After all, we were in St Andrews, and many Scots settled here back in the day. Kurt Gumushel runs Off Kilter Bike Tours, and grew up in this small town of just 1500, so he […]

Algonquin Hotel’s Golf Club: A Swing with a View

Jason Porter pretends to tee off at the Algonquin Hotel

Jason Porter has had a tough summer. The golf pro and director of at the Algonquin Hotel’s beautiful ocean front 18-hole course hasn’t been able to swing a club since early summer, due to an injury.  Yet he still gets to the course at the crack of dawn and leaves […]

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life Illuminated Over Tea

Eleanor and FDR's Red Cottage, with 32 rooms, at Campobello.

We started our morning early in Bar Harbor because we had a date for tea….tea with two lovely women, Carolyn Newman and Debbie Mitchell, who work as docents at the Roosevelt Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada. Eleanor Roosevelt was an American icon who earned her place in history […]

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