Millennials are cool. I want to be one, based on the two I met. I can also say I had a parenting epiphany at the same time. We can learn a lot from these hipsters. I connected with two very bright ladies through my high school friend, an exchange student from...
And that’s the way it was fourteen years ago. A two-year-old was in a face-off with the Easter Bunny, unsure of this tall furry creature in the park. Dozens of chubby-legged preschoolers dragged their brimming baskets from egg to egg, delighting in every...
Regardless of your choice of candidates, most people would agree the 2016 Presidential Election is unprecedented. The frontrunners defied all odds. The lack of political experience improved a candidate’s chances. Usually, discriminatory or inflammatory remarks would...
Don’t buy cheap mascara. If you do, you could look like Courtney Love from her 1993 album cover Live Through This, as pictured above. I was Courtney for Halloween one year. I did it up with an empty pill bottle in my pocket, tiarra, smeared red lipstick and black...
“I DO NOT GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS JOB!” I exclaim as I get up from my makeshift office at the dining room table. That’s how powerful I am, no real office, just a portable laptop. Only the size of my “desk” seems ominous except I sit at the corner of the table instead...
I am not really the science-y type. So, I was a little caught off guard when my Masters Swim buddy suggested I write about the dirty waters of Brazil, the host country to the next summer Olympics. Wow! The topic alone is kind of an Olympic challenge for me. But...
The Super Bowl is over but we made the most of it in the last 24 hours, starting with a visit to Super Bowl City, right in our own backyard. The only time we could go was Saturday night, the day before the big game. We risked sharing the moment with 200 thousand of...
Looking for a good book? My book club read a pretty crazy-good list in 2015. Rankings were highly sophisticated, a paper vote and handwritten tally based on 6 of 8 members attending. We all confessed our votes after the secret query, hence the “almost top...
Tuesday afternoon, I “Took It Easy” with The Eagles. I was skimming Facebook when I crossed the Rolling Stone tribute to Glenn Frey–20 Essential Songs. I started listening and decided, “I can’t sit here at 4:15 pm staring at a computer and listening to...
Dedicated to my friend Gina who suggested I take the Kondo challenge and blog about it. Got a request? Drop an email. I’ve been Kondo-ized. I applied the Japanese-way-of-tidying-up to my clothing, per the book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Maria...
