Editor’s note: There’s plenty on the menu
Let’s begin with a confession: I like beer as much as the next New England IPA convert, but I’ve always scoffed at anything that claimed to have added fruit – don’t get me started on pumpkin spice – and anything that called itself a “sour.” Then I met the Delicate...
Profile: Uniting culture, cuisine
Long a staple at the annual Multicultural Festival, Batulo Mahamed has built a following with her meat pies, which she learned to bake as a child in Somalia Batulo Mahamed’s vendor booth at the Concord Multicultural Festival never fails to draw a crowd. Her...
Summer 2019
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Make More Time for You
It can be hard to find time to cook a decent meal or maintain a calendar amidst the pressures of everyday life. But renewal isn’t limited to your body and mind. It can also be applied to your house and time. If you have the ability to do so, having someone else take...
You, 1,100 Pounds of Epsom Salt, and Total Solitude
It can be hard to find ways to break free from the minutia everyday life. Sometimes it takes a physical isolation from everything—your family, your phone, your job, your responsibilities, your senses—to be able to actually make that escape and take a breather. Owner...
Renewing Mind & Body
After a long and cold winter, spring can be a time when people look for ways to regroup, refresh, and renew themselves to achieve a more balanced and healthy life. As nature blooms, communities have more locally sourced and fresh food options available. Spring is also...
Faraway Places
(Early Spring 1964) Euphony: A harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound –Merriam-Webster Adelaide had just discovered the word euphony in a 1934 Webster’s in Past Perfect, an antique shop and her new place of employment. She wondered why she hadn’t heard...
The Last Sugar Bucket
I walked the same hundred acres that my grandfather did so many decades ago. A slight fog was burning off as I crested the hill at the center of the property and looked out over the hundreds of New Hampshire sugar maples. A family tradition at first and then a very...
The Inexorable March of Spring
AND WITH IT LET NEW THOUGHTS, NEW FREEDOMS EMERGE The term mud season as a synonym for spring never resonated with me. Though it is somewhat descriptive of the season, it obscures other more inviting possibilities. It is the reveal of nature that draws me into spring....
Strolling Through a Warming Tide of Music
THE CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OFFERS A PROFOUND MUSICAL EXPERIENCE Until I met Peggy Senter, founder and president of the Concord Community Music School, I thought a music school offered only instrument lessons such as piano, violin, and guitar. But the...
Your Local Pied-à-Terre
THE HOTEL CONCORD OFFERS A RELAXING ESCAPE FOR AN EVENING OR OVERNIGHT Arrange a babysitter for the kids and head downtown for drinks, dinner, a show, and then, if further escape is desired, a quiet night in a beautiful room. The next morning enjoy breakfast and pop...
Making a Splash
AN ODE TO EARLY SPRING PUDDLE STOMPING It’s too bad I don’t have a lab coat, a monocle, or cartoonish Einstein hair because I began class on Tuesday morning with a mysterious experiment. One student tells me, “You’re like a mad scientist running tests on us.” Without...
A Wooded Path to Opioid Recovery
HOW LIVE-EDGE FURNITURE IS HELPING PEOPLE RECOVER FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION Remember the Shel Silverstein story The Giving Tree? It’s about a tree who loves a boy. Through the years, the tree gives the boy everything she has so that he can make a new life for...
Love— Don’t Fight — Your Body
NEGATIVE EMOTIONS LIKE GUILT AND SHAME DON’T LEAD TO CHANGE AND APPRECIATION When you look in a full-length mirror, what do you see? Are you inspired, encouraged, and appreciative, even if your reflection doesn’t match your desired state? Maybe you smile and...
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