Archive for April, 2018
NY Theatre Ballet’s “The Alice-in-Wonderland Follies” Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
April 29th, 2018
Upon entering the Florence Gould Hall, you are greeted by two charming young girls wearing frilly Alice-in-Wonderland costumes (complete with tea-cup hats on their heads), handing out programs. This delightful touch sets the stage for the completely enchanting ballet that follows. [caption id="attachment_26950" align="alignright" width="300"] Elena Zahlmann as Alice. Photo Credit: ...
What We Think, We Create by Tae Yum Kim, author, THE SEVEN STEPS TO INNER PEACE (Book Excerpt)
April 27th, 2018
Everything external in life was first internal in thought, so no permanent change can come about merely by attempting to fix or rearrange external conditions. Yet that’s usually what we try to do. When we see the symptoms of something wrong in our lives, we usually try to get rid ...
Crying at Yoga Class by Zoe Richmond
April 25th, 2018
It's the third week of “Yoga for Grief.” I am in a pose to stretch out my hips where the teacher says people tend to carry stress. After class, I ask why, and she says it’s tied to the fight-or-flight response. “Fight-or-flight response engages the muscles in your hips getting ready ...
Finding Motherhood in My Fifties by Debbie Oberlander
April 20th, 2018
I gave birth to my beautiful little boy just days before my 55th birthday. He is now approaching three. I absolutely love being a mother. I am proud to be an older mom. I wish I had the courage to be an older mom just a few years earlier, but ...
GOLDSTEIN: Show Review by Robin Gorman Newman
April 18th, 2018
GOLDSTEIN is an earnestly appealing new musical about family...in this case an Immigrant Jewish American clan, and while it lacks real depth, it exudes heart and features a super talented cast making the most of the largely bland material. As the pages of Louis Goldstein's family memoir stir up a host ...
Stop Trying to Be a Perfect Mom by Dana B. Myers, author, The Mommy Mojo Makeover (Book Excerpt)
April 18th, 2018
Raise your hand if you relate to this kind of morning: I wake up at the crack of dawn, hurry the little ones out the door to school and then sit with a cup of coffee amidst a pile of clothes to be laundered, crumbs to be swept and To ...
Empty Nest Schmest by Barbara Adler
April 13th, 2018
I’ve been hearing about this so called “Empty Nest Syndrome” for years. Long before it would ever apply to me. I occasionally glanced down the road towards those “older” moms wondering how it feels to do whatever I want, whenever I want, basking in the “emptiness” that lay ahead. I ...
A “Downtown Experience” with My Teen Son by Robin Gorman Newman
April 12th, 2018
My son, Seth, 15, and I had been fans of THE RIDE for years. We were regulars when he was younger and did NYC staycations during holiday time. It was always a thrill to take THE RIDE at night especially and experience the city in its luminous glory, including the ...
Going on a Guilt Trip by Nina Lorez Collins, author, What Would Virginia Woolf Do?
April 10th, 2018
WHY DO WE FEEL GUILTY? To me, it’s obvious. From the time the children are shooting down the mini-slide at the playground until they are walking onstage to accept their diplomas, all eyes are on Mom. Dissecting mothers for their awed parenting and the impact it will have on their ...
Meet Later Mom Janet Neal (Interview by Robin Gorman Newman)
April 9th, 2018
AGE: 62 RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Divorced RESIDENCE: Little Falls, NJ CHILDREN’S NAMES/AGES: Timothy - 27 Christopher - 24 Emily - 22 A “reformed Superwoman”, I am now a woman who has learned that the power is in BEING first and then doing - not the emphasis on the doing that the role of Superwoman encouraged. My mission is ...
