Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Pop Culture on Dec 23rd, 2010
Something strange is happening this holiday season. People are saying it. You know, the phrase that’s sort of gone by the wayside: Merry Christmas. I noticed it earlier in the month, and it’s a trend that just hasn’t waned. The first sneaky salutation happened at A.C. Moore. Granted, I was buying ornaments for my Brownie [...]
Posted in Pop Culture on Dec 12th, 2010
I was born too late to truly appreciate the Beatles in their prime. They broke up before I was born after all. As I got older I was never into the Beatles, although several of my boyfriends loved the Fab Four. For example, I remember sitting in the radio station at Manhattan College playing records [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Things that make me go hmmm on Dec 7th, 2010
I just read a story about comments made by Kate O’Beirne, MSNBC talking head and editor of the conservative National Review. Ms. O’Beirne moderated a Republican strategy session (The 112th Congress and The New Promise of American Life: Less from Washington, More of Ourselves) at the Hudson Institute Friday. During the discussions, she said the [...]
Posted in Pop Culture on Nov 18th, 2010
Before I go any deeper into this post: For the record I feel very, very bad for Eva Longoria. She seems truly devastated. A few years ago she seemed like she was truly in love, so she must be in agony today. It is horrible and stupid that her husband Tony Parker strayed, even if [...]
Posted in energy, Pop Culture on Nov 3rd, 2010
I believe in the soul. I believe it endures even after the physical body is gone. I also believe that certain souls are drawn to each other. This is why, I think, we meet people and feel like we have known them forever (because maybe we have). Big Girl, for example, has several friends who [...]
Posted in Environment, Health, Illness, parenting, Pop Culture, Toxins on Aug 10th, 2010
A Facebook friend posted a link today. It was from The Today Show — a segment about early puberty. It was pretty shocking. The segment was based on a new Pediatrics study — Pubertal Assessment Method and Baseline Characteristics in a Mixed Longitudinal Study of Girls — looked at girls ages 6 to 8 who [...]
Posted in Emotional development, parenting, Pop Culture on Jul 5th, 2010
This is my 200th post. I can’t even believe it. It’s also the first post to come after so many days “off.” I didn’t write Friday, Saturday or Sunday. I hosted a party here Friday, saw Mary Poppins on Broadway on Saturday and spent Sunday at my beach club (a.m.) as well as at a [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Pop Culture, Shopping on May 28th, 2010
I will come out on record now: I never got caught up in the SATC trend back in the late 1990s. Yes, we had HBO at the time. Yes, I was a female 20-something. But I just never bothered. I was too busy watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Charmed. (Those shows — and [...]
Posted in Cool sites, Environment, Favorite Things Friday, Pop Culture, Reduce, Shopping, Sustainable on May 21st, 2010
This week we spent the early evening at Brooklyn Bowl, which, to me, is really just a club that happens to also have bowling lanes. It was a launch party event for Yo Gabba Gabba’s live show. My big girl has watched the show. My baby, who won’t turn two until the end of June, [...]
Posted in Emotional development, Pop Culture on Apr 8th, 2010
Those of you who watch NBC’s The Biggest Loser are very familiar with Melissa, voted out on Tuesday night’s show. For those who aren’t: She’s one half of the reviled red team. She and her husband were game on from the moment the show started. The Internet was abuzz about how “evil” she was, this [...]