Tomorrow is the start of October, and usually I love this month. It’s glorious. The changing leaves. The variations in temperatures. The sky is a different kind of blue. Autumn, and October in particular, is pretty, though I’m not a fan of everything suddenly becoming flavored with pumpkin spice (that starts on September 1 for…
Category: Wellness
Seeking Enlightenment in the Berkshires
To me, and perhaps to other New Yorkers, the Berkshires look like the Catskills; those same soft blue ripples of rock rising and falling to the north. Yet the Berkshires have a very different narrative than the Catskills. Today, the Catskills feature some of the Rust Belt deterioration that dominates so much of upstate New…
Because Winning Is Fun
I’ve never written about my serial spa quests here, but, well, I’m a spa gal. I like massages and scented candles and rose petals floating in foot tubs and facials and fuzzy slippers to wear while I’m enjoying all this stuff. Forget getting my nails done every other week at some local nail salon. I’d…