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Hello everyone! Let me ask you all a question! Are there any places that you really like going to? So much so that you will go to them more than once a year, even though nothing has really changed? For a while, I did. It was The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk. I would go there many times a year with my family.  But then, the pandemic happened, and we couldn’t go anywhere. Once the pandemic was over, we constantly talked about how we should go back to The Maritime Aquarium, but for a number of reasons, we never went.  One of the first reasons is that it has taken me a very long time to stop worrying about Covid. In fact, I still worry about it whenever I go to a place that is indoors.  Another reason has to do with it being crowded. What I mean is that for the past several years, my mom was an aide at the elementary school, so she was always working during the week, and we knew that the Aquarium would be crowded on weekends and during the summer, so we just never went back t...

Hello everybody! This past weekend, I got to have a unique experience that was unlike anything I had ever done before. I went to the Greenwich Polo Club! As some of you might remember, I actually wrote about this place last year, so I don’t think I need to explain the basic details about the place. Instead, I will tell you all what I saw there, and what made my experience so great! First of all, people get dressed up for these Polo matches, much like how they do for The Kentucky Derby. I would say that I was surprised by this, but I also dressed this way. I wore a shirt from the Patterson Country Club, and red shorts that had lobsters on them. Which you can clearly see in the picture above. Also, when I first got there, I saw a surprising amount of food trucks. I know that it shouldn't surprise me, but I was surprised by just how many were there. It was like a tailgate party was happening. I don’t know, I’ve never been to any sporting events, and that was the best comparison I coul...

Hello everybody! As many of you are probably aware, I have been dealing with the worst creative block when it comes to writing blog posts, and I have experienced so many false starts with my writing, that it has been getting to me a lot. So, I decided to do something very unique: Write about it!  I don’t know why, but I feel like if I share it with all of you, maybe it will help me feel better about myself, and maybe I will get to a better place with my writing.  Here’s something important that you should all know. I like to plan out what I am going to write about before I actually start writing, because I feel that if I know what I am going to write about, the rest will come naturally. Unfortunately, this has not proven to be entirely correct recently, as even though I have planned out what I am going to write about for some recent blog posts, I have either not been satisfied with what I am writing, or I realize that it won’t make a good blog post.  Here are some example...

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I have written about concert venues, so let’s do that today!  Today, I am going to be going over the upcoming shows at The Saratoga Performing Arts Center! For those of you who don’t know, it’s another outdoor summer concert venue. I will not be going over all of their upcoming shows, because a lot of them are classical music, and I am positive that none of you reading care about that. Because I certainly don’t. The first show they have on June 18 is one of the biggest stars in the world right now: Jelly Roll, who will be joined by some rising star named Kashus Culpepper, who is such a rising star that he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. The next show they have on June 19 is another big country music celebration: Riley Green with Clint Black, Drake White, and Hannah McFarland. I’m only familiar with Clint Black because he was on The Masked Singer, but does anybody else know who any of these people are? The next show they have on June 23 is...

Hello everyone! In my recent blog post about events in Stamford this summer, I mentioned that there was still one more that I needed to talk about, so now I am going to talk about it! Before I get into it, I’m going to talk about another summer event that used to happen in Stamford Downtown called Alive At Five.  As its name suggests, Alive At Five was an outdoor summer concert series on Thursdays that would start at 5:00, except that is not actually when the headliner would start performing, as they would go on stage MUCH later, which I am saying from experience. The series went for so many years, and got so many artists that fall under the categories of artists you have never heard of, and artists you used to hear from, but not anymore. In other words, the type of people who either have been on or are going to be on The Masked Singer. Yes, I can tie so many things back to The Masked Singer.  These concerts were held in Columbus Park in Downtown Stamford, and they proved to b...

Hello everybody! I am still experiencing some writers block, so I took some inspiration on what to write about from my dad, who suggested that I write about a place I have already been to a few times this year: Winfield Street Coffee!  As its name suggests, it’s a chain of coffee shops in Connecticut, New York, and Florida. Okay, that’s not what its name suggests at all. In fact, some of you who are reading this probably thought it was a coffee shop that is located on Winfield Street in some town or city. But no, it’s a chain that has six locations. Two in New York City, two in Naples, Florida, and the two locations that I have been to, Rye, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. The story of this place actually goes all the way back to 1925, when Winfield Delicatessen first opened in Norwalk, Connecticut, and quickly became a beloved neighborhood staple.  In 2015, a man named Breno Donatti, who came from Brazil to America at the age of 18 years old and had worked his way up in t...