My friend Beth Feldman is the founder of Role Mommy. Which means she runs PR events for women amd brand events for bloggers. It means she offers online courses in PR and blogging, and that she passes on press opportunities to her giant database of bloggers. Oh, and it means she blogs, and sings, Continue Reading
A Psychopath left a Comment on my Blog!
Earlier this week my post about how to behave at a Broadway Show got a lot of attention when the lovely now-they're-my-best-friends people at Wordpress chose it for Freshly Pressed, their daily pick of the 10 most comment-worthy posts on the nearly 240,000 blogs housed there. I got a lot of hits Continue Reading
Seeing a Broadway Show: Hair and Hygiene Tips for the Uninitiated
A few weeks ago my fellow blogger and Blogging Angel, Rebecca Levey from Beccarama.com, took me to see A Little Night Music on Broadway. Catherine Zeta Jones starred in the cast of this revival when it opened. And after seeing her inexplicably Tony winning, bird-trapped-in-a-plastic-bag body Continue Reading
Southampton Hospital Benefit: One Weird Night Pt 2: Dinner
Yesterday I set the stage: glamorous women, men in plaid pants, fur stoles in August! Yes, it was the 52nd annual Southampton Hospital Benefit, called “Some Enchanted Evening.” Today, I’m continuing the saga as we enter The Dinner Hour!! (cue scary music) The Southampton Hospital Benefit is so Continue Reading
Put some Clothes On!
I am old. Not because of my saggy knees, or brown spots, or my elbows that look as if they’ve been crumpled up in the back of a drawer for a few decades. No, I am old because I am horrified by what “young girls” are wearing. (plus, I refer to anyone under thirty as a young girl - I'm old for Continue Reading
The Comeback Kid – The comebacks I wish I had when I needed them
Here are some of the choice things said to me recently by friends and family (and one stranger): As I was on my way to the gym: "I so admire you, Nancy. I could never leave the house looking like that." As I was entering a dressing room to try on bathing suits: "Are you gonna fit in Continue Reading
(Pole Dancing + Trapeze) x major hair-cut = Midlife Crisis
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
Busy Doing Nothing
At the end of every day, I feel like I have done nothing. Oh I've been busy all right. But doing what? So one day last week, I decided to keep track of my day -- how could I have been so busy during all those hours when the kids were at school and have nothing to show for it? Here's how. 6:50 Continue Reading
At Least my Dog Still Loves Me
The Kids vs. The Dog I remember the olden days when my children would cry and carry on when I left the house to go out. "Don't go Mommy! Don't go!" And when they would rejoice at my return, running to the door to smother me with kisses....even if I had only gone downstairs to get the mail. But Continue Reading
My GlaMOMous Life
True, I'm a Mom. And true, unless you're Julia Roberts or Gwyneth Paltrow there ain't a whole lot that's glamorous about it. But I do have my GlaMOMous moments. Here are some recent ones. 1. Last Saturday night, hubby and I went out to dinner with (child free) friends. The time of the Continue Reading