This week, I had the pleasure of attending the Annual Ronald McDonald House New York fundraiser, “Skate with the Greats” featuring New York Rangers legends. I will admit that I had not heard of the event but thought that this was a perfect event to attend on a Martin Luther King Day holiday. My daughter […]
6 Things I learned about Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
I spent my formative years (junior high school/high school) in Reston, Virginia which is 20 minutes, south of Washington. I grew up reading three newspapers a day and watching the Sunday morning political shows. Now, I can barely pay attention to politics because the rhetoric is not about helping the country and it’s people, but […]
A Day Alone – NYC Single Mom Visits the Upper East Side
The recent blizzard threw my plans to have some mommy time down the crapper because the family that was going to host my brother and daughter were snowed in. So I decided that I would take a day off after the break was over and spend the day on the upper east side, wandering the […]
Wordless Wednesday – Technological Kids
Let’s just hope she can learn to code at an early age. Momma wants a house in Capri.
Wordless Wednesday – Kid in a Box
What is it about Kids and empty boxes? My daughter came chasing after me when I tried to throw this box away, look at it does it look like I have the space to keep this box. This is why she wanted me to keep it. “Kid in a box” is what she called it. […]
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves – Quote by Henry Miller
As we head into 2011, this week is about reflection. I found this post while cleaning up the bugaboos on my site and thought how apropos. This post originally ran in July 27, 2009. Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. By Henry Miller (author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic […]
NYC Blizzard 2010
Just a few photos of our day out after the blizzard hit New York City.
5 Minutes to Capture 2010 Memories – #Reverb10
Reverb 10 is an annual event and online initiative started by Gwen Bell to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next. Reverb 10 provides participants with an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened, and to send out reverberations for the year ahead. With Reverb 10 – and the 31 prompts the 31 authors have created, […]
Christmas Holiday Traditions
Celebrating Christmas is filled with annual traditions, Today is officially Christmas and I thought I would give you a play-by-play of the days leading up to the big day and all the Christmas rituals that I have tried to instill for my daughter so when she is older she will have wonderful childhood memories to […]
Merry Christmas – NYC Single Mom Staycation Travelogue
We are having Christmas Staycation this year. Rather than go silent for the next two weeks, I am going to try to put up a daily photo travelogue.Operative Word here, TRY. Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas!!