Fall 2024 – Hope’ful in Boston
September 1 2024
As we welcome back our students, horrible fall traffic, Storrowed trucks (it will happen, you know it will), and the excitement in the air that is from 250,000 students back to the think tank known as Boston and Cambridge, I am once again Hopeful!
Why am I hopeful? Party politics aside, I am Hopeful for the end of political ads and division. I am hopeful for the clean, crisp air of fall and perhaps not too much snow this winter. The Farmer’s Almanac predicted a slightly warmer albeit wetter winter in New England. I’ll take that! It is much easier to drive in the rain than in the snow. Although, you could never tell that on a rainy day on route I-93 into Boston! Yikes!
As I read recipes, 15 fast and easy meals, thinking of how I cook healthy meals for myself while sitting in traffic for my 2-hour commute, I am Hopeful that I will, this year, maybe not gain the winter weight and work on losing a few pounds I gained eating Lobster dripping in butter and fried clams. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love our summer food in Boston! I live for our summer food in Boston! Fresh grown tomatoes, blueberries and peaches! Sweet watermelon and juicy hamburgers!
There is something Hopeful about Fall that also brings with it the warmth of hearth, butternut squash soup, pumpkin pies, and of course Iced coffee with fresh apple cider donuts! Apple picking in the suburbs or picnics with the orange glow of leaves along the Charles River. (While you wait for that Storrowed truck to be cleared.) Perhaps I’ll just try walking off the Summer Fun with a Fall North End Pizza Tour Boston Pizza Tours | Pizza & Food Tours of Boston, MA. It is a walking tour after all. There’s always the Fall Baseball season, the Sox will play throughout September! Listen for the true Bostonian cry – There’s always Next Year!
This year maybe I’ll just take one of those scary Boston Ghosts and Gravestones tours in October, of course, the scariest month of all! Boston Ghost Tours | Boston Haunted Tours — Ghosts & Gravestones (ghostsandgravestones.com) While passive in exercise, it may still get your heart beating fast! October starts the Bruins and Celtics seasons! See the World Champs, Boston Celtics as they hang their new #18 Banner! Or Bruins start their season with their new additions of Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov. Should be exciting in old Bearstown (much better than Beantown. Who wants to be called a legume?)! Speaking of bears, have you met our bear – Hope? All children visiting us get a free Hope bear of their own! You never know where Hope will surface – she may just be at The Inn checking in while you are here!
ABOUT HOPE THE BEAR
Hope the Bear, The Inn at Longwood’s official mascot, received her name as the result of a Facebook contest in which friends of The Inn at Longwood were encouraged to help decide the bear’s name. To celebrate Hope, the Inn at Longwood Medical’s website has a dedicated page complete with a brief video to chronicle Hope’s adventures in and around Boston. Hope the Bear is an award-winning mascot, having won recognition from AHLA as a community service award. Hope is both the face and the voice of The Inn at Longwood.
ABOUT THE INN AT LONGWOOD – www.innatlongwood.com 617-731-4700
The Inn at Longwood Medical hotel, located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, for patients, medical professionals, and other guests, serving the area since 1997. Hotel amenities include the Longwood Grille and Bar, function space, and an adjacent Longwood Galleria food court.
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