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In 1991, I was a senior in college. I had my second real boyfriend and first real love and was about to make my transition into The Real World, whatever that meant, as a new college graduate.  I finally grew into “pretty”, but still struggled with the idea of “sexy” and had exactly zero idea [...]

Last week I headed out to the Mom 2.0 Summit – a social media conference and conversation between brands, bloggers and agencies held at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne. If you follow me on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook here is why you MIGHT have hated me last week: Maybe. I had told myself that I was [...]

Image via In life you are taught it’s not things that matter – it’s people. It’s shallow to love things. Things don’t wipe your tears, they don’t tell you everything is going to be okay – they don’t love you back. But, the things with meaning, they do remind you of that – of the [...]

Image by Renault Futterer Last weekend Leah went to her first Tae Kwon Do tournament. She had been looking forward to it for weeks and spent hours in class getting ready for it. Not knowing what to expect, she was a little nervous, but was comfortable in her skills and abilities – for months she [...]

For the first time in a year, Benjamin was sort of sick. I say sort of because even when he is actually sick he doesn’t really accept that and just marches on as if not much has really changed. He’s kind of tough that way. But at some point this week the body took over [...]

am a big fan of ideas. Specifically great ones. What fascinates me even more sometimes is HOW those ideas came to be. I do not believe in the proverbial lightning strike. Great ideas are not random – they come from somewhere. Is there “right place / right time”? Yes. But that doesn’t work without the [...]

Last week I flew to Salt Lake City, Utah to attend the 2012 Altitude Design Summit. It’s a professional conference for those of us in social media focused on the design, style and creative space. At least that’s the official definition of it. What really defines this bootcamp for your creativity, design and writing passion [...]

Hello, friends! This morning I am off to the Altitude Design Summit in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah where I will get to sit in a room filled with creatives and hang on the words of such notables as Ben, founder of Pinterest, the extraordinary Gretchen Rubin and a gazillion other talents I can’t believe [...]

Hey, look at that! I’m in a chef’s coat again! Several weeks ago I was browsing my Life List and decided it was time to tick a few more things off before the end of 2011 and, since it was the middle of the holiday season, anything dealing with food seemed to be a great [...]

Last week I spent some time thinking about what 2012 is going to look like. Every year seems to have a “word” that describes it – sometimes you get to pick that word, sometimes that word is thrust upon you. It feels like the word for 2012 is “shift”, but I’ve yet to determine whether [...]