In this second installment of See Beantown Like Nobody’s Business, I would like to share with you a day in Boston starting once again from the Common, but with two options for those of you with a time crunch or just different styles: the Esplanade Park or strolling Newbury Street. The Boston Common is the [...]

Boston or “Beantown” has been one of my homes. I lived there for roughly five years. With its combination of history, arts, culinary scene, and the vibrancy of the population (with so many higher educational facilities), Boston is a top notch city. I had the opportunity to visit last week over the long Fourth of [...]

As the majority of us head back to work after a weekend of getaways to campsites, cottages, beach homes, or just a coma induced weekend of lots of grilling and libations, I have just arrived back to South Florida from a very quick whirlwind tour of Boston and a traditional New England Fourth of July. [...]

It was in 2000.  I was teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) in Roslindale, Massachusetts at the Boston School of Modern Languages during the day and waiting tables on Newbury Street in Boston at night and on weekends.  I was then only 22. As I had just came back from Spain, I thoroughly enjoyed that at [...]