Archive for June, 2011
Finding My Happy Place by Liimu
June 30th, 2011
Years ago, when my brother's branding business was thriving on Park Avenue, I remember us sitting at a fancy NYC restaurant called "America" while he grilled me on my plans for the future. "Be the best at whatever you do," he advised, unsolicited. "If you're going to be a singer, ...
I’m so Verklempt! – By Cara Potapshyn Meyers
June 29th, 2011
Definition: Verklempt - a Yiddish expression of being overcome with emotion.Living in the outskirts of New York City, and in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, I hear this Yiddish expression quite often. I believe it was even used in a Seinfeld episode once to explain Elaine’s overwhelmed state of mind! I, too, am verklempt! ...
The Motherhood of Writing — by Laura Houston
June 28th, 2011
I spent four years of my life trying to get pregnant, doing things like injecting myself in the ass with long, thick, angry needles full of progesterone, or drinking Chinese herbal remedies that caused me to throw up half the time because they smelled and tasted so bad. ...
Me and My Girl—by Jamie Levine
June 27th, 2011
When I became pregnant as a single mother by choice, and discovered that I was having a girl, one of my friends declared, “you and your daughter will be just like the Gilmore Girls!”—which was one of our favorite TV shows at the time. Well, as the 41-year-old mom of ...
GUEST BLOG POST – Your Inner Vision by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
June 26th, 2011
I’m writing on my way to the hospital for my grandson’s birth. Sonograms have taken the thrill away from psychics like me for predicting gender. Still, good news is welcome from anywhere.There’s so much I’d like to tell the soon-to-be parents, but I stay in their good graces by keeping ...
Becoming A Free-Range Parent by Maureen Eich VanWalleghan
June 25th, 2011
I am follower of Lenore Skenazy’s blog Free-Range Kids. She has a book out by the same name, which I would very much like to buy. I bring this up because often to do the kinds of activities she promotes for Free-Range kids, activities that were once the norm, partly ...
Life Lesson – by Robin Gorman Newman
June 24th, 2011
The Rolling Stones got that right in their rock classic, "You Can't Always Get What You Want."Seth experienced this first hand recently, and it was a valuable reminder lesson for me as well and something I appreciated sharing with him.We had tickets to see Gazillion Bubble Show for the third ...
What’s On YOUR Mind? by Liimu
June 23rd, 2011
I know I've blogged about this before, but it's really important.What we think about, we bring about.How many times have you found yourself facing a horrible situation - financial crisis, sick child, or just general feeling of overwhelm - and then started "venting" to people about it, lamenting how horrible ...
Discovering a Piece of the Puzzle – By Cara Potapshyn Meyers
June 22nd, 2011
It has been a while since I updated our readers on my still pending divorce. I found, by happenstance, a very interesting piece of information that may help me to understand the “I don’t know,” I’ve always received as an answer when I asked my husband why he doesn’t even ...
Trying to Teach Compassion — by Laura Houston
June 21st, 2011
I am taking a break from teaching my boys the ABCs and their 123s. I have noticed that here in Manhattan where pressure is high for kids and parents to test into a good kindergarten that a more important lesson is being left out. Parents have forgotten to ...
