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I’m joining Team Fink/Wasserman to walk to end Alzheimer’s. I’m trying to reach my personal goal of $150. If you’d like to join our team (or another one) for the walk on Oct. 27 in Cambridge, you are warmly welcome! If you’d consider making a donation, that would also be appreciated. If neither works for you, please…
Our family loves Lionel Messi and we have been fortunate to have watched him play in person several times. My husband figured out that Inter Miami CF would be playing the New England Revolution which is Boston’s professional men’s soccer team AT HOME so he got tickets before they sold out. Apparently, when Messi plays,…
We are so proud of our oldest, Zoe Lee, for graduating from Rhode Island School of Design this past June with a degree in Industrial Design, and a minor in Nature Culture Sustainability Studies. She was chosen for the Entrepreneurial Award in her major, Industrial Design: She was asked to present on her minor,…
My husband discovered fishing off the Charles River as a pandemic activity that we enjoyed together. We took our dog for a walk. I would either paint in watercolor, walk around with my dog for exercise, or I would forage in the woods, at least trying to identify the natural edibles using an app called…
Barbara Richardson, my 87-year-old neighbor loves orchids so when I knew that I had to take photos of the world’s largest orchid garden at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. My favorite spot in this garden-within-a-garden is the cold house! It is so hot in Singapore that instead of a hothouse, they need a cold house. And…
My middle daughter is studying abroad at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for one semester. Her dormitory at the College of Alice and Peter Tan, to our surprise, is not air-conditioned! It is a well-appointed single — all the rooms are singles — with a shared bathroom for the floor. I was pleasantly surprised…
It was the highlight of our trip to California for my husband to play on one of his all-time favorite golf courses, Riviera Country Club! This is a PGA golf tournament in conjunction with Tiger Woods’ foundation. He was invited to be part of the San Jose State foursome to support one of their players,…