This week, I had the pleasure of attending the Annual Ronald McDonald House New York fundraiser, “Skate with the Greats” featuring New York Rangers legends. I will admit that I had not heard of the event but thought that this was a perfect event to attend on a Martin Luther King Day holiday. My daughter […]

I spent my formative years (junior high school/high school) in  Reston, Virginia which is 20 minutes, south of Washington. I grew up reading three newspapers a day and watching the Sunday morning political shows.  Now,  I can barely pay attention to politics because the rhetoric is not about helping the country and it’s people, but […]

The recent blizzard threw my plans to have some mommy time down the crapper because the family that was going to host my brother and daughter were snowed in. So I decided that I would take a day off after the break was over and spend the day on the upper east side, wandering the […]

What is it about Kids and empty boxes? My daughter came chasing after me when I tried to throw this box away, look at it does it look like I have the space to keep this box. This is why she wanted me to keep it. “Kid in a box” is what she called it. […]

As we head into 2011, this week is about reflection. I found this post while cleaning up the bugaboos on my site and thought how apropos. This post originally ran in July 27, 2009. Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. By Henry Miller (author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic […]