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No idea what I’m talking about?  Read this. Hi, all! Thanks to the lovely Amber, New Yorker of Awesomeness, we now have a plan for the walk. Here are the deets: Sunday, August 8th We will meet in the Hilton NY hotel Starbucks at 8:15a for coffee and bagels sponsored by the ever wonderful ListPlanit, with [...]

Driving home from swimming lessons yesterday, we stop at a local fast food joint to pick up some hamburgers because, quite frankly, yesterday called for hamburgers.  Also? Cocktails. Benjamin is wet and sitting on a towel in his booster carseat enjoying a French fry and regaling the car with his feats of swimming including the [...]

There are these days.  There are these days where one word defines the entire day.   Some days it’s as simple as “simple” or “beach” or “win” or “end”. Hashimoto’s. There was no other word after that one today. It just sat there.  In my head.  Like a g-ddamned stone.  Unmovable. There were other words that [...]

Sunday we had the family over for lunch to celebrate Benjamin’s 4th birthday.  (4 Year Old post coming shortly, I promise.) Without going into too much detail, about halfway into the party my mother-in-law began to feel “odd” and she was escorted to our bedroom to go lay down.  After a barrage of questions, the [...]

It’s hard to ignore the sweaters and jackets that are showing up in the stores these days.  Head to the mailbox and it’s fall catalogues that fall out and break your toes.  It may be 100 degrees on the thermometer outside, but according to the all-knowing retail calendar it’s FALL, folks. I have yet to [...]

Thanks to the wonder that is the Internet, you can literally shop the GLOBE for fantastic pieces to add to your collection.  Here are some great places to hunt down that trendy piece of jewelry to keep your wardrobe updated and fresh without investing a mortgage payment. LuLu’s I love LuLu’s for their eclectic taste.  [...]

For the first time in close to seven years Husband and I are going on vacation.  Alone.  No kids.  NO KIDS. (I think that deserved its own line and all caps.) We have family here in town but it’s just really too much to ask any of them to keep these darling, precious offspring for [...]

Thanks to all of you who gave me feedback on what the hell it is I do here.  I think there is a difference between why and what I write and why you come here — and I wanted to understand that.  You helped me clarify some things in my own mind for that I [...]

The other night on Twitter I saw a comment that really kind of shocked me.  It had to do with someone making fun of all the discussions surrounding “What Should I Wear” or “What to Wear” to BlogHer ’10.  It would appear this person wanted to make a point about the “real” way to approach [...]

I like food.  I won’t use the word “foodie” because I think it’s overused and now I don’t even know what that means anymore.  But I like food.  A lot.  I like eating it and reading about it and cooking it and thanks to all that is good and holy I can now WATCH food [...]