Keep Calm and Carry On

Keep Calm and Carry On

Having boarded our flight from Dubrovnik to London for a connecting flight to Boston, I took my seat between my husband and Aaron, a young British father holding Avery, his twenty-month old daughter. Aaron was seated in the aisle seat across from his wife, who was...
Seeing Beyond the View

Seeing Beyond the View

While in Croatia I had an experience that made me recall a children’s book called Miss Rumphius, a story about a little girl who aspires to do something to make the world more beautiful. In that storybook her “something more beautiful” was planting lupine seeds...
Zivjeli

Zivjeli

Zivjeli, or after one drink  just “Jer”, is the customary drinking toast in Croatia.  We were told that it roughly translates to “long life”, and that it’s important when toasting to look into one another’s eyes; without that connection, the meaning isn’t...
The Play(ground) Must Go On

The Play(ground) Must Go On

As we meandered our bikes along the backroads of Zagreb and Split, Slunj and Korenica, we were in the vicinity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where much of the Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991-1995. Homes and the people living in them were hit hard by...
Hidden Treasures and Unexpected Joys

Hidden Treasures and Unexpected Joys

The opulent Vienna Opera House is no secret, but scoring tickets to Figaro while visiting there was certainly an unexpected joy! Going to the opera in Vienna was on my bucket list, but when I’d tried to purchase tickets a couple of months before our planned trip, I...
The Brain Huddle & Fast Downhill Biking

The Brain Huddle & Fast Downhill Biking

For clarity: this blog is linked to an earlier one in our series, “Whole Brain Adventures”, which discusses the work of Jill Bolte Taylor. After recovering from a massive stroke at the age of 37 years old, she discovered that she could recognize when she was...
Whole Brain Adventures

Whole Brain Adventures

Over the course of the past couple of weeks, I went traveling with my husband: first to visit family in London, then to Vienna to retrace the footsteps of my husband’s grandmother before she immigrated to the U.S., then to Croatia for a bicycling adventure, and then...
Championships are Built on Relationships

Championships are Built on Relationships

Julie Field, Retired District Court Judge, Co-founder of The Consilium Institute. You, see, it’s not just about the X’s and O’s. “[Coaching] sure ain’t about drawing up (bleeping) plays. It’s about building relationships and instilling belief.” Michael Malone Denver...
Every Family. Full Stop.

Every Family. Full Stop.

Although I’d been practicing family law for twenty-three years, I first represented a party in a same-sex divorce in October of 2009. Difficult though it may now seem to believe, gay marriage was not legal in Massachusetts until the 2003 landmark decision of Goodridge...
Emptying the Nest

Emptying the Nest

Back when I was in law school, I found myself in search of a new apartment. This was long before Facebook, Instagram, or other social media platforms existed where people could connect over shared interests and needs, so my search began by scouring local classified...

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