Archive for September, 2008

ethiopian cuisine in cambridge

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Two weekends ago I went to Addis Red Sea on Mass Ave in Cambridge with Lisa, my most adventurous friend when it comes to food. Apparently it opened about a year ago when the one in the South End became so popular that diners begged owners Assefa and her husband, Bekele Alemu to open another branch. What I liked [...]

this week’s travel finds: see your donation in action

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There is no doubt that integrating charitable service into one’s travel experience is a growing trend. In fact I don’t think I can say it better than Girlfriend Getaways’ Jennifer Wilson did in her recent story “Donors without borders: charity-affiliated trips”: It used to be that if you wanted to give money to charity, you simply [...]

this week’s travel finds: see your donation in action

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

There is no doubt that integrating charitable service into one’s travel experience is a growing trend. In fact I don’t think I can say it better than Girlfriend Getaways’ Jennifer Wilson did in her recent story “Donors without borders: charity-affiliated trips”: It used to be that if you wanted to give money to charity, you simply [...]

one last summer weekend

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

My weekend wrap up is late because yesterday was labor day and as the daughter of a union man, it just felt wrong to not honor the day and do anything but nothing. Mike and I drank some wine, ate homemade pizza with wheat dough from Trader Joe’s and watched Clerks and Caddyshack – it [...]

travel gear tuesday: become a wine connoisseur

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I picked this up at Cross in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago. Normally I would find something like this wicked corny… I should have cropped out the “Live, Love, Laugh…” part, sick. But, I did buy this because as much as I love wine, I am far from a connoisseur and inside, this little book [...]