Quaking With Anticipation Quaker Diner, West Hartford September 2012 I've started a tradition with Damian wherein we go to these classic diners on days it's just us at home. In West Hartford, the public schools have both Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana off - which means that our kids have 3 days off in September, the … [Read more...]
2012 Top Comments
CTMQ Gets Comments Every TV channel, website, magazine and blog does at least one year-end List at the end of the year. I never have before, but in an effort to take my mind off of Newtown without doing much heavy-lifting, I thought I’d put one together. I get a lot of really, really great comments. I’m not … [Read more...]
Newtown
Like everyone, I have been in a near-constant state of shock and stupor since 26 women and children were murdered in Newtown three days ago. There is so much to say, yet no way to say any of it as well as I'd wish. There is so much to assess and rectify, yet no one knows where, or how, to begin. For me, writing … [Read more...]
Pachaug: Pharisee Rock Trail
Oh Those Pharisees Pharisee Rock Trail, Sterling December 14, 2012 For starters, I don't really care about who the Pharisees were. If you do, rock on. I do care about the Pharisee Rock Trail though - the short one mile in, one mile out trail on the Pachaug Trail in the Ekonk section of Sterling. I realize … [Read more...]
240. Sculpturedale
Lions and Tigers and Sharp Metal Edges, Oh My! Kent (Google Maps location) September 15, 2012 Having been to 240 museums so far in Connecticut, it stands to reason that I've met some really interesting and talented people. I can add sculptor Denis Curtiss to that growing – but distinctive! – list. I can’t … [Read more...]
White Silo Winery
"That Being Said, It's Too Siloed" White Silo Winery, Sherman September 15, 2012 The title on this page, if you didn’t get it, is an homage of sorts to corporate-speak. It’s a crime that locally owned farms with operational silos are disappearing, but middle managers complaining about a work group being too … [Read more...]
Savino Vineyards
SaviNo or SavinYes? Savino Vineyards, Woodbridge December 2, 2012 There still remain some rare pockets of Connecticut that I’m not familiar with yet. I’m 100% confident that if you knocked me out and blindfolded me and stuck me just about anywhere in the state, I’d know exactly where I was and how to get to where … [Read more...]
– Hoang Drinking at CT Wineries
Why I Love My Wife and Why You're Glad You're Not Married to Me Part 67 Congratulations on finding a "hidden" CTMQ page that I created just me for, because it makes me laugh. When I was going over my pages on our wineries I was pleased with the fact that I took the same general picture of my wife at so many of … [Read more...]
Thomas Darling House
It’s Just… Just So… I Can’t Think of the Word Woodbridge (Google Maps location) December 2012 CT Museum #244 In what seems to have become an annual tradition, I visited another historic house museum during their December holiday party. I’ve sort of figured out how this whole thing works. (I know, I know… I’ve … [Read more...]
Ketchin Quarry
Step'n Ketch'it Simsbury Land Trust’s Ketchin Quarry, Simsbury November 2012 I feel weird. Weird because I take pride in writing almost every word on this site; only cutting and pasting in rare circumstances. But for this page, about a ridiculously short little "hike" along Quarry Road in Simsbury, it … [Read more...]
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