Harvest Time

Fall is a busy time gathering remaining produce from the vegetable garden and plucking the last of the sun-kissed tomatoes from the vines before overnight temperatures drop. In the meantime, Mother Nature pulls out her big paint box of brilliantly hued colors and...

Child’s Play

After years of being over-scheduled, with a daily routine of attending school and then moving on to one or two sports practices followed by homework, kids suddenly found themselves with nothing, literally nothing, to do during COVID. Schools were canceled at first,...

Bohemia the Beautiful

It was the night of May 31, 2017, and silence at last had descended on the historic shingle-sided house on Curve Street, just blocks from the Wellesley College campus. Two weeks before, Katie Swenson witnessed the sudden death of the man she was to have married in...

A Reconstructive Surgeon Tries His Hand at Painting

During his career as a plastic, hand, and reconstructive surgeon, Robert Savage melded art with his medical experience to not only improve people’s lives, but to do so as skillfully and as beautifully as he could. Today, Savage brings his aesthetic skills to a...

PlayRox! The Power of Play

Community Investors (CI), a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and supporting youth wellness through organic remedies, was founded by a team of local parents concerned with youth challenges in 2014. PlayRox, CI’s student-led, musically powered, fun-focused,...