I *had* to stop by to check Peace by Chocolate out! So many of my favorite things together – peace, chocolate, community engagement, creating local jobs, celebrating inclusion, leading by example… My heart was happy and my mouth was happy, too! Peace in...
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Peggy’s Cove was one of three places my sister, who happily honeymooned in Nova Scotia, recommended I visit. Peggy’s Cove and Lunenburg (another of her recommendations) are pretty close to each other on the South Shore of the Atlantic, south of Halifax....
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My sister and her husband honeymooned on Nova Scotia, and they both still get a faraway dreamy look in their eyes when they talk about it. They had three main recommendations – Lunenburg, Peggy’s Cove and Cape Breton National Park. I went to all of them!...
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The announcer called them “personal vegetable crafts (PVCs).” The Pumpkin Regatta is literally people paddling enormous pumpkins across Lake Pesaquid. The paddlers carve out the pumpkin’s centers and create elaborate seating on the inside. They paint the...
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If there is one thing that I got clear about during my time in Michigan, Ontario and Quebec, it is how strategically important the Great Lakes and adjacent rivers have been in the course of human North American history. Québec City is considered the “cradle of French...
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