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By Trish • March 23rd, 2010

Watch the 2010 New Bedford Race Video Some runners choose their races based on distance. Or notoriety. Or the terrain, the location, the cause, or maybe the color of the T-shirts. I didn’t choose to run New Bedford for any of these reasons. I chose it because it was an official “Boston Marathon” team run for our Alzheimer’s Run for the Memory team. I also signed up because I checked the weather on my iPhone and ..read more

I recently had the opportunity to see a press screening of the movie, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” with my two youngest kids, Caleb and Joel, as well as  interview Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney. I am sworn to silence about the movie. No spoilers will spill out of my mouth. But let me just say I can’t wait to see the movie again. And when Book Five of the series comes out? I’ll be there in line, with ..read more

Last week, I flew down to Key West to spend a quiet weekend with my husband. I left behind four kids and four-degree weather in Boston. Our plan was to relax by the pool, soak up any precious sunshine that came our way, and pretty much do nothing. That all changed when I arrived at Key West, and decided to try to share a cab ride from the airport. Always the enterprising one, I spotted a woman and asked her if she ..read more

www.flickr.com/photos/boston_aids_africa/sets/72157623224331526/show/ Two months ago today, I was in Port-au-Prince, our last day of a 7-day humanitarian trip with World Vision. We had spent the majority of the week in the Central Plateau town of Hinche, to see how World Vision was helping the poorest of Haitians with basic healthcare, schooling for children, community agriculture, emergency relief and food distribution (in partnership with USAID). While in Port-au-Prince, we stayed at La Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, toured the city, got our ..read more

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How Rehabilitative Yoga Can Help By Trish Reske Published in baystateparent magazine When baystateparent’s Think Pink cover model, Jacy Watson, of Concord, MA was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37, the very last thing on her mind was yoga. “You get the phone call, and you’re sitting in your house, and the first thing you think is, ‘Oh my God’ and ‘What do I do?'” What she did was begin a long journey of treatment for her breast cancer that included multiple ..read more

Published in baystateparent magazine What if you could give your child a special gift? A gift that was never the same, always changing? That stimulated imagination, creativity and observation? That could calm even the most hyper child –without drugs? That could improve her test scores? That would ensure she would become environmentally responsible? And that would give her a profound sense of “place” in the world? Now what if this gift was free, readily available and lasted forever? Where do you ..read more

When the average American thinks of Salzburg, they think of The Sound of Music. The classic film about the Von Trapp family was filmed in this beautiful mountainous city in Austria. Salzburg is also known for its famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born and lived here until he moved to Vienna. In history, Salzburg was given to Bishop Rupert in 700 A.D. by Bavaria in order to evangelize the area. It remained a peaceful, independent state for 1,200 years,, ..read more

We spent a day and a half in Munich, and found it a lovely city to visit. I really didn’t know what to expect when we got to the city, but Munich is very friendly, sophisticated, Americanized (because of the occupation after World War II) and interesting. Now that I’ve been to Munich, I can see why some compare it to Boston. Munich was created when a toll road needed to be established for the salt trade going ..read more

We spent a morning in Dachau, one of the more well-known concentration camps during Hitler’s terrorizing rule.  As we drove in, I wondered what we would see and experience. And I also wondered what it must be like today to live in Dachau, with such a horrific stain on the town and association with the name. Dachau is still today, as it was in the 1930s and 1940s, a suburb of Munich, Germany. The people who lived there, surveyed later, knew for ..read more