What Do You Know For Sure?
It happens to me every winter. My head and body feel like they belong to someone else; somewhere else. Call it a bad case of SAD. The winter just does a number on me, leaving me feeling depleted and...
View ArticleAging With Ease and Grace
I am so delighted to have recently reconnected with a friend from my past. Our children went to preschool together. Shortly after the end of the school year, Charlotte and her husband Alan moved from...
View ArticleFive Steps to a Healthier Meal While Dining Out
While my children were growing up, I insisted on cooking most nights. Ever the health-conscious mother, I knew that my meals would be more nutritious than takeout, even though during the busy sports...
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Keeping Up is Hard To Do
Total computer meltdown.Photo credit: Shutterstock.com If you’re old enough to remember that old saying “Keeping up with the Joneses,” you’re old enough to understand how hard it has become to really...
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Remembering to Give Thanks: 12 Things I’m Grateful For
Happy Thanksgiving (and an apology to all you turkeys)Credit:Shutterstock.com I thought that this year would be different; that I wouldn’t be posting the usual “I’m grateful for X.” But somehow, this...
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Defining Moments
We all have defining moments. Do you think they chart the course of our lives? There’s something waiting to be unwrapped in all of us.Credit: Shutterstock Yesterday, like on most other days, I...
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When Nothing is Sure…Everything is Possible
Yesterday, I eavesdropped on Dame Judy Dench and Maggie Smith. “How many new lives can we have?” asked Ms. Dench. She answered her own question with the best five words I’ve heard in a long time: “As...
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Is Bruce Jenner Having a Midlife Crisis?
Yesterday at the gym while stretching post-workout, I overheard two women talking about Bruce Jenner’s recent announcement that he was transitioning into a woman. (I wasn’t exactly eavesdropping; if...
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Pedaling Like Mad (and Getting Nowhere Fast)
“Let’s go to spin class together, mom! There’s a new Soul Cycle that opened in Westport.” It seemed like a good ideaPhoto Credit: Shutterstock How could I resist my darling 29-year-old son’s request?...
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Knowing What to Say to a Friend With Cancer
What to do? What to say?(Shutterstock.com) Even today, 26 years after experiencing what it feels like to be ‘that’ person, it’s can be hard for me to figure out what to say when someone else gets...
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