NEW BEGINNINGS
With a new year on the horizon, I am hopeful that 2024 will be a little kinder than 2023. I had a great loss this past year when my sister Patty succumbed to a very rare cancer. With losing Patty, I realize I need to be a bit kinder to myself. Get more rest, go for walks, and share my thoughts and feelings when the grief becomes too much to bear. The greatest lesson of all is that health is everything. We all need to take better care of ourselves when life becomes stressful. I won the wellness lottery this issue as I got to write about 5-star spas in Boston and beyond. Visiting the Mandarin Oriental, Encore Boston Harbor, and The Four Seasons One Dalton spas was healing, therapeutic, and…