<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Aqua Miami 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aqua Miami 2026]]></description><link>https://wainscot.wixstudio.com/aqua-miami/blog-1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:47:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.aquamiamimag.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Homes With History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Diana Coldren, Licensed Realtor with the CPC Team with Compass Realty LOCAL EXPERT | REAL ESTATE What kind of properties do you sell? I enjoy helping clients prepare their historic single-family homes or condos in Boston to sell. By understanding their goals and everything about the property, we position it to obtain the highest price. My team and I, experienced in the city for nearly three decades, utilize top-notch print and AI digital marketing to reach a unique audience based on...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/homes-with-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e4</guid><category><![CDATA[Local Experts]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:31:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b0c6a6_3fc016f8caaa4435adaae1863e0687ea~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Curious Mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Test excerpt]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/a-curious-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e9</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:03:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_8d59466906fd4450a0d1b26455612e8c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[YOU’RE IN BOSTON  during the fall of 1900. The city is bustling. Immigrants from Eastern Europe, Italy, and the West Indies crowd the...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/staying-power</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75ef</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:02:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_bf100f1b5e5444d6a16e416c2690036f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shaken, Not Stirred]]></title><description><![CDATA[NO. 9 PARK  was a jewel of the Beacon Hill restaurant scene for decades, a go-to for stiff cocktails and special occasion meals. Now, the space houses Nine, a reimagined fine dining concept and a chic gin palace primed for both anniversary diners and after-work drinks. Allan Rodriguez, the Boston restaurateur behind Newbury Street concepts La Neta and Sabina Mezcaleria, as well as El Centro in the South End, took over the space shortly after its closure with the goal of honoring No. 9 Park’s...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/shaken-not-stirred</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75dc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:01:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_9b7f79490208481bb2db968c9018fcce~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning Back Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHEN IT COMES  to my looks, I’ve learned to manage my expectations. I’ve got a great personality, or so I keep telling myself. After a...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/turning-back-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75ea</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:00:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_8f8926bcace7473a8b28adab7599c005~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canine Connections]]></title><description><![CDATA[IF YOU FREQUENT BACK BAY, Beacon Hill or the South End, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered me and my dog, Satchel. His large,...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/canine-connections</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75dd</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:22:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_5f2dc3b29abc442b81e67969acf4c6ae~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_846,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distinctive Vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[A PAIR OF MODERN, canary-colored chairs outside Blink, a boutique optometrist practice on Newbury Street led by Dr. Stacy Coen, OD, signal to strollers-by that something fun and artsy is happening inside. And it is—Blink offers the city’s most distinctive collection of eyeglass frames, sourced from artisans around the world, with options so appealing that shopping for the right pair of glasses here feels a bit like picking out the perfect engagement ring. On any given day, Coen and optician...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/distinctive-vision</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75ed</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:21:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_d577066e208644b2b3a2134da1deb7ce~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_860,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of the Bridge]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARCHITECT MIGUEL ROSALES likes to give his absolute, undivided attention to the task at hand. Nattily dressed, perfectly composed and seated in the center of an elegant blue sofa in his Beacon Hill brownstone, the country’s most popular bridge designer pauses before responding to questions, weighing each word, to construct precise sentences that span his life story.   Rosales is the inspired mind behind the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, which connects the North End to...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/the-art-of-the-bridge</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75de</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_42e404c5653d40f8bb875f4505ee1cd6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on Nantucket]]></title><description><![CDATA[ONCE HOME TO  motley crews of whaling men and their families, Nantucket is New England’s own island paradise, a paragon of coastal beauty and a perfect antidote for these anxious times. There are no bad angles on Nantucket. Every view is a postcard: cobblestone streets lined with pastel-hued hydrangeas, cedar-shingled homes with rose-dotted trellises and lush pivet gardens, pristine dunes topped by lavender-and-gold sunsets. Visitors fly in on private jets, supersize yachts dominate the...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/life-on-nantucket</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e2</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:19:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_4687cbe3616a4761bf65aff5a1032b9a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_600,h_416,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PAGES WITH HISTORY]]></title><description><![CDATA[FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS , the Boston Athenaeum has been the literary and intellectual heartbeat of Boston. Members and visitors are part of an unbroken literary conversation that once included Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Quincy Adams, and continues with today’s poets and scholars, along with the delightfully bookish. For more information, visit www.BostonAthenaeum.org . The recommendations below include books that either shaped the Athenaeum’s past...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/pages-with-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75ee</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:07:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_071f1486787f42aaa33b83a9193cacf4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Success]]></title><description><![CDATA[25 YEARS AGO , Joanne Chang walked the streets of Boston and Cambridge scouting neighborhoods and dreaming of opening a bakery. Now, she serves sweet sticky buns and flavorful breads from 10 different locations of Flour Bakery + Cafe, dishes out piping hot Chinese small plates at Myers + Chang, and has published five cookbooks.  Chang never anticipated this kind of expansion and celebrity when she opened the first Flour Bakery in the South End. “I lived upstairs and baked downstairs. It...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/sweet-success</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75db</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:05:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_99400533c7504a9daac8c7f59f9b2a77~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joie de Livre]]></title><description><![CDATA[BOSTON’S FRENCH LIBRARY has the easy elegance of an accomplished femme d’un certain age. A symbol of the enduring friendship between America and France, the library—now in its 80th year— has evolved rather quietly from a wartime gesture into an extraordinary organization that boasts the largest private collection of French books and media anywhere outside of France. It’s an impressive place, but not an intimidating one, thanks to a friendly staff that’s keen to spread France’s major cultural...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/joie-de-livre</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e5</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:30:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_a1ef357b09244d2f91756e4b3933efb4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Summer Workouts!]]></title><description><![CDATA[SUMMER IN BOSTON isn’t just about Red Sox games and weekend getaways. It’s also when the city basically turns into one giant outdoor gym. Whether you live in Beacon Hill or Back Bay, there are tons of free ways to get moving, from yoga on the Common to strength training along the Charles. Feeling the heat? We’ve included virtual options too! Here’s a roundup of the best free fitness classes happening this summer, all close to home. Boston Parks Summer Fitness Series WHERE: City of Boston...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/free-summer-workouts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:15:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_8f911dcc626449c68d2157b49c6f0349~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_837,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boston’s Magic Maestro]]></title><description><![CDATA[THIRTY YEARS AGO, Keith Lockhart took on the mantle of the Boston Pops from world-famous conductors John Williams and Arthur Fiedler. Lockhart was 35, and he was terrified. A small-town Poughkeepsie, New York, native, Lockhart had previously served as the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops. But when he became the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor in 1995, his star catapulted. Suddenly, Lockhart was a huge celebrity being photographed for People...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/boston-s-magic-maestro</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e7</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_827a9f79e3cc45eba3418f6286a0f7c2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_962,h_498,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Road Trip Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[READY TO UNLOCK  the best season of New England? June offers the perfect blend of pleasant weather, and the reemergence of seasonal businesses. Here are five unique day trips within two hours of Boston. They all promise an unforgettable adventure to one of our region’s lesser-talked-about destinations. Each location is good for all types of day-trippers: couples, families, best friends and groups. Your packing inspiration includes a refillable bottle of water, car snacks, sunglasses,...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/road-trip-season</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75ec</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:40:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_0d51b2d2bfce4478be87508c2bba15dd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_944,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green-Space Guru]]></title><description><![CDATA[BOSTON'S BEAUTIFUL PARKS and urban green spaces are a second home to Liza Meyer, the newest president of Friends of the Public Garden. She’s taken countless strolls through the Pinebank Promontory on Jamaica Pond, admired the ever-changing decorations on the Make Way for Ducklings statues in the Boston Public Garden and cheered her children on at sports games hosted on public fields. Now Meyer will devote her love of the outdoors to the three parks under Friends of the Public Garden’s...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/green-space-guru</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75df</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 21:12:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_c2b527077de84792b1d83492794f401a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_700,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Modern Home With History]]></title><description><![CDATA[SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my wife and I decided we were ready to create our dream home. As a professional architect with nearly 30 years of experience restoring and renovating historic homes, I wanted a place with genuine historic character. I also wanted to learn as much as I could about its origin and evolution. We searched for a property in Back Bay that would allow us to mix modern architecture and interiors into a historic structure, with the goal of restoring the exterior and renovating the...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/a-modern-home-with-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75f0</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 21:10:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_4637387fc9d44ee494f38f870628ab3f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestral Ties]]></title><description><![CDATA[RYAN WOODS, president and CEO of American Ancestors, knows who he is. More than most people, in fact. As a lifelong history lover, he’s delved into his own ancestry and learned many stories about his lineage.   As the director of a nonprofit genealogy organization, he’s made it his mission to bring that same level of familial connectivity to everyone who walks through the door.   The organization’s latest initiative is the opening of the Family Heritage Experience, an interactive, family...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/ancestral-ties</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75eb</guid><category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:12:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_99f025ba40bb426491714d4d4d0385e0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_962,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother’s Day at Women’s Lunch Place]]></title><description><![CDATA[EVERY SPRING, a small card with a significant impact begins its journey across Boston and beyond. The Mother’s Day card campaign from Women’s Lunch Place (WLP) is more than a thoughtful gift; it’s a lifeline for women in need.   The story starts decades ago, when WLP dreamed of opening its shelter and advocacy center for one additional day: Mother’s Day. Staff wanted to honor their guests with a special meal, particularly for mothers and daughters with nowhere else to celebrate. But with...]]></description><link>https://www.aquamiamimag.com/post/mother-s-day-at-women-s-lunch-place</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69af0ed748bac10ed79f75e8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:09:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4bc0f1_9e755d49d68f46fba55a82d31f5b58fa~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_792,h_555,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nigel Edelshain</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>