Archive for April, 2014

Common Core Versus Common Sense by Sharon O’Donnell


As the mom of three sons -- one a college graduate and headed for grad school at the University of Virginia, one at sophomore at North Carolina State, and one a 7th grader -- I have been around the block a few times when it comes to our educational system. ...

Cool Kid Stuff and More by Robin Gorman Newman


If your child is anything like my son who adores anything police, fire or emergency vehicle related, then this book is up his or her alley. Police cars are a unique breed, and their restoration can be much more difficult than other marques. Find out how to tackle this project the ...

The Good ‘Ole Fitness Times: By Vicky Dal Molin


I’m late this week with my post. I’m never late on deadlines. It’s Thursday and I’ve literally had to stop everything I’m doing to write my post. If you know me I rarely ever missed meeting a commitment I’ve made. As I’m driving to work this morning I listed out ...

GUEST BLOG POST & BOOK GIVEAWAY: Travel: The Best Education…for Moms by Jennifer Coburn, author, We’ll Always Have Paris


[caption id="attachment_17751" align="alignleft" width="200"] Photo credit: Katie O'Nell[/caption] I thought I would take my daughter Katie overseas and teach her about the world. Instead, over the course of a decade, visiting 12 European cities, she taught me about life. On our second day in Paris, then-eight-year-old Katie and I ...

MOMS NIGHT OUT: Bullets Over Broadway: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman


Featuring existing music from the 1920s, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY includes a new adapted book by Woody Allen. The new musical comedy tells the story of an aspiring young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster’s no-talent girlfriend in his new show in order to get it produced. The 1994 ...

Spring in Central Pennsylvania By: Lori Loesch


 Spring has finally arrived in my part of Pennsylvania. I live in the middle of the state. Winter was long, dark and cold this year. It seemed never to end. Today I can say that I have it on good authority that spring is here! The birds tell me as ...

MOMS NIGHT OUT: THE REALISTIC JONESES: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman


Academy Award nominee Toni Collette (Muriel’s Wedding, Hostages), Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under), Tony Award winner Tracy Letts (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Homeland) and Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler) star in THE REALISTIC JONESES, the new play about love ...

To GPS Track or Not To Track: That is the Question – By Vicky Dal Molin


So I was looking at my usual blog posts today and one came up that has sparked many a debate. It was advertising this wizz bang new watch or children that allows you to GPS track them from your smart phone etc. It’s a cellular-connected GPS tracking device basically. You ...

From Rainbow Loom to Minecraft to ROBLOX by Conlee Ricketts


It was the end of September when I began blogging every Monday for Motherhood Later. This is now my final Monday for awhile. My fairy tale life as stay-at-home-mom/entrepreneur has to take its turn on the back burner for awhile. I’m fairly sad. I started a new job three weeks ago ...

“Bello Mania” is a Belly Laugh: Show Review by Margaret Hart


On Friday night, I saw a fantastic live show at The New Victory Theater, a jewel among the smaller, more intimate theaters, located in the heart of Broadway and Times Square in New York City. “Bello Mania,” is a high-flying, hysterically funny, circus-acrobatics, show starring Bello Nock, a comic daredevil ...