“How Starbucks Saved My Life”- Starbucks Story Can Give us all a Needed Boost!

If you'd walked into the Starbucks on Seventy-eighth-Street in New York City and saw an older man cleaning the bathroom, you'd …

Euro Trotting With Teens

Once we decided to bite the financial bullet and take a jaunt across the Atlantic to the Old Continent, we discarded any notions of luxury and comfort so we could afford to see as much as we could cram into three weeks. From the outset we decided to visit seven cities in four countries: Rome, Florence and Venice in Italy; Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; Paris, France, London and Oxford in England … And since both of us are in our late 40’s, and our kids 14 and 17, it was also one heck of a Euro-family-fitness challenge Amazing Race style.

NEW POST AT THEWRAP: Katezilla Gosselin Stirkes Again!

Kate Gosselin: Talkshow Host? Ugh. Click through to read the article at www.TheWrap.com

A BLOGGER'S DREAM

I watched “Julie and Julia” with my daughter on Sunday (the boys were next door at “Bastards” which my 17 year-old was watching for the third time), and it was pure delight for the senses! The movie presents the true parallel stories of Julia Child and Julie Powell, the latter a blogger in real life who GETS a life, […]

BE BACK SHORTLY…

HAPPY ALMOST END OF SUMMER! I took a long needed break from writing, and perhaps gave you some time to catch up on your summer reading (and my blog, I hope!). Euro-Trotting with Teens, Back to School, the College Search Odyssey, and a bit of Hollywood happenings will soon be posted here, so I hope you'll rejoin my ongoing rants […]