Thanksgiving Gratitude/22 hours in Rowley & Ipswich

Two days before Thanksgiving my husband and I pressed pause on normal life and snuck away to the Green Briar Inn in Rowley. This isn’t far from our house, and that was kind of the point. I have been incredibly stressed, for what reason I’m not exactly sure. I blame it on a variety of astrological phenomena, Mars Retrograde in Gemini for an extended time, and a recent eclipse season that felt exceptionally challenging. Maybe it was those things, maybe it’s just midlife. Either way, I haven’t slept well in weeks and my nerves were fried. I didn’t want to travel far, all I really wanted to do was lay in bed and watch TV for 10 hours. And so, we took ourselves only a short distance from home and did just that.