Alexandra Vaillancourt

Dateline Boston -- Sports are not my thing. But I read the headlines. I remember when the Red Sox won the World Series in...

Dateline Boston -- I am a morning person. I always have been. I wake up early, immediately, and happy. Before I met my husband,...

Dateline Boston -- I am a nanny in charge of a 6 ½-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. I love my job. It’s fun,...

Dateline Boston -- We bought artisanal kittens. Husband, having never had kittens, was worried that we would get the attack kind. Would they bite...

Dateline Boston -- Designer kittens! Get your designer kittens! Lots of colors, tons of personality, only $3,000! Oh, did I mention they were hypo-allergenic? We...

Dateline Boston -- Recently I took a couple of kids to the local toy store so they could each pick out a treat. We...

Dateline Boston -- A few days ago I took my two-year-old charge, Theo, to a gym class. A gym class for two- year-olds, you...

  Dateline Boston -- April 2015. I’m gonna call it now and say that winter is over. Yes, the calendar says it was over on...

Dateline Boston – The movie Les Miserables certainly lived up to its name. I went in expecting so much, and came away with so little. That’s not entirely true. I came away with many ideas for an essay; I wrote this in my head during the torturous three hours I had to sit in that theater. Of course it had to be three hours, because you just knew every song from the Broadway production had to be included. No intermissions here! I didn’t even have any popcorn.

Dateline Boston – H and I got a wedding present from a Japanese family. In Japan, money is a typical wedding present. We were happily surprised to receive...