Being a blogger has introduced me to so much. I’ve made good friends, used my social media influence to help raise money for charities like K.I.D.S, R Baby, The Lamp, Mothers2Mothers, and Women in Need. Sometimes, I’m amazed at how bloggers give back, like Jennifer James and her initiatives for Continue Reading
My friend Julie's son is in an after-school football program that meets three days a week for three hours each practice. He is 9-years-old. If my son wants to play on his 7th grade soccer team, he needs to commit to practice three days a week, and devote a fourth day to playing games. My daughter Continue Reading
Thank goodness for my new super-duper souped up high-tech pedometer-that's-so-much-more Striiv. You see, what with little things like starting up a new website, raising capital for said website, raising twins, writing for my blog, recording with the Blogging Angels,worrying about my neck, I kinda Continue Reading
It’s finally NOT hot and muggy in NYC, and what better way to celebrate than by taking a run? How about taking a run to help combat childhood obsesity? Obesity among children has become an immense problem, bordering on epidemic. The New York City West Side Y has organized a run to raise Continue Reading
Congratulations are in order. Because I have accomplished the impossible. I now weigh what I weighed when I returned home from the hospital after giving birth to twins ten years ago. Yes, it's true. What it took nine months and two actual human being growing inside of my body to accomplish, I've Continue Reading
So it's the first day of school. And here's what I've learned already: 1. I clearly, really, and truly, must have sat on my ass all summer. How do I know this? Well, this morning, after cabbing it to school for a meet your new-student buddy breakfast at 7:30 (never mind that our new student buddy Continue Reading
The day before yesterday I left my parents’ country house and drove into the city where the first thing I did, as usual, was weigh myself. Way to ruin my day. At least it’s blog fodder, I thought. I can write about how everyone always talks about how easy it is to lose weight in the summer – but Continue Reading
It's time for true confessions: 1. I don't like chocolate. Perhaps that makes me weird. I don't care. 2. I recently went to a benefit for a local high school only because Tony Dovolani from Dancing with the Stars was hosting. 3. When I get Wii and DSi games to review....I give them to my kids, Continue Reading
She flies through the air with a grunt and a wheeze, That middle aged-mom, on the flying trapeze. Yes, that would be me. In this, the middle aged-crisis part deux post. You've already read about my hair and my calamitous (if courageous) pole dancing escapades...but now you get to see me on the Continue Reading
I think I'm having a midlife crisis. Why else would I have cut off my hair, gone Pole Dancing and and taken a trapeze class all in the last month? Yep, that's me on the trapeze...though not me (I mean , seriously) on the pole.[picapp align="right" wrap="false" Continue Reading