My Top 5 NYC Movies for Blog Her ’10 and Beyond…
Even if you’ve never been to NYC chances are you feel like you have just from watching Sex and the City, or Law and Order or Seinfeld (with its fake NYC sets it still passes). But I thought I’d put...
View ArticleIf Women Ruled the World: BlogHer and The White House Project
I spent a good part of last week with 2400 women from all walks of life, from coupon moms to political activists. Women bloggers descended on The Hilton in NYC for the BlogHer ‘10 Conference. This...
View ArticleMy Favorite NYC Supermoon Picture
This photo is via flickr and taken by “Steve O.” I want to blow this up and hang it in my living room. The super moon was so spectacular. For all of his photos click here. Filed under: life in nyc...
View ArticleParents as Meaningful Partners in Education
This post was originally written for the White House Champions of Change series and was published last week by Parenting on the Mom Congress blog. As I prepare for my speaking gig at the #140...
View ArticleFilm Set on my Doorstep
Walked outside my door and saw this parked on the street. Plus an entire street of classic 60s cars. Don’t know what they were filming but it’s the perfect reminder that you never know what you’re...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at Mary Poppins – Disney Magic In Times Square
A few weeks ago we were invited to take a backstage tour of the New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street, current home of the Disney Broadway musical, Mary Poppins. The New Amsterdam is a particularly...
View ArticleWhat I Want My Daughters to Know About 9/11
My daughters are 9/11 babies. They were born in 2002, a little less than nine months after 9/11. I was very newly pregnant that day, but so early I didn’t know I was pregnant for 4 more days. We...
View ArticleGetting My Artsy Girls to Play Sports (Hint: It’s about the outfit and gear)
My daughters never liked team sports. At 4, when I enrolled them in a kiddie soccer class they turned the goal upside down and declared it a spaceship, climbed on in and then proceeded to create a...
View ArticleTrue Story: Mayor Koch Made My Sister a 5-Year-Old Deputy Mayor
Mayor Koch was mayor of New York City for my entire conscious childhood. He was such a part of my young New York life that I thought his first name WAS Mayor. I can’t tell you who was mayor before...
View ArticleHurricane Season Starts June 1st: NYC Know Your Zone!
We New Yorkers have been through our share of emergency situations over the last 12 years. I watched the Twin Towers collapse from my apartment window. I made it through the blackout with twin baby...
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