Maria R. Durant – Dwyer & Collora
"If I could recapture one childhood experience, it would be spending summers with my family at the beach in Maine. We couldn’t dip our toes into the icy cold Atlantic Ocean until late-August (when the water temperature peaked at a balmy 60 degrees) but as a teenager, I looked forward to late afternoons on the beach when most people were gone and the sun was setting.  Each afternoon, I’d grab a book, pull on a sweatshirt and plop myself into a beach chair where I’d stay for hours.  There was something very peaceful about those afternoons – a sense of peacefulness that I just don’t get these days when I go to the beach with my 3 kids and enough beach gear for a small village.  While beach adventures these days are lots of fun (and exhausting), I look forward to coming full circle and recreating those lazy afternoon beach experiences before too long."

Michael E. Mooney – Nutter, McClennen & Fish
"That is a difficult call to make, but I believe it would be coming down the stairs in the morning on a visit to my grandmother’s home in St. Louis, Missouri and entering the kitchen, where she was making breakfast for my brother, my sister and me.  To this day, I can still remember the smell of her kitchen on those mornings and the sense of comfort and well-being that it gave me.  The irony is that my grandmother was a terrible cook, but she more than made up for it with the love that she added to every meal she made."

Maria H. Joseph – Joseph Mediation & Legal Consultation
"My first taste of chocolate."