Picture perfect. Carlisle Center early on a Saturday morning in July is just that. While the roads that converge on this small town from other destinations can be rather busy during the week, on a Saturday or Sunday it is blissfully quiet and comfortable. You feel your shoulders ease up, facial muscles relax and your [...]

My daughters and I have enjoyed a summer of trail exploration. On days of brilliant sun they skip in and out of the shadows created by arching tree limbs and compete as to who will spot the next chipmunk burrowing between stone hideaways. Clear, beautiful trails are so bountiful in both Concord and Carlisle, that [...]

Today’s musings are in relation to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s House in Concord, MA. It sits diagonally across from The Concord Museum. If you are intrigued by Emerson and his contemporaries, it is a great first stop. Walking the grounds and interior of the home will give you a sense of where many of the conversations [...]