**PRESS RELEASE: 70 Strangers Use Social Networking Site Twitter to Lose 1500 lbs.** How do 70 virtual strangers sitting in front of their computers commit to collectively losing 1,500 lbs.? The answer is: Twitter. Twitter is a fast-growing social networking and microblogging service that allows users to instantly message each other through updates (called “tweets”) of up to 140 characters [...]

What combines fabulous fashion, great fun, and the friendly mingling of shoppers and celebrities? SUPER SATURDAY… an annual “Designer Garage Sale” sponsored by Donna Karan and InStyle to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund was founded in 1994, and its mission is to fund cancer research into early detection and ultimately a cure of ovarian [...]

Oh, yes. Quite literally. I have taken the plunge. Yesterday marked 6 weeks since my C-section. And do you know what that means? Walking. Running. Swimming. Holding my boys. Spinning, turning and tight hugs kind-of holding. Chasing my boys in the backyard. It can ALL be done! AHH!! It’s a NEW me! Last night I walked for 45 minutes with [...]

It’s up to you! (thanks to MyPerfectColor.com): The colors (in the can and on my wall): 1) Benjamin Moore 1676 – Northern Air: 2) Benjamin Moore HC-67 – Clinton Brown: 3) Benjamin Moore HC-9 – Chestertown Buff: 4) Benjamin Moore HC-159 – Philipsburg Blue: 5) Benjamin Moore HC-127 – Fairmont Green: The back story: Steve and I have lived in [...]

If it is true that the pleasure of love is in loving… then my pleasure in life has just been multiplied beyond measure! Yesterday morning, at 10:49 am, our newest little grandchild entered our world! Our hearts and arms and souls welcome beautiful and healthy Dylan Joseph. 8 lbs. 3 oz. Dylan is the baby brother to Maddie, 7, and [...]

It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon. My husband’s away for the day, so I’m alone all day with the boys. We’re confined to the house with this rainy weather. So when I leave the living room with 3 boys laughing and playing and talking to each other to do a quick load of laundry… and then hear SILENCE. I get nervous. [...]

Twitter has become a part of my everyday life, and while many of the people I talk to online (note to my brother, Keith: online does not mean in my head) are Twitter users, I understand that much of the world at large is befuddled by the Twitter phenomenon. And now that Audrey has started a weight loss challenge on [...]

Twitter? Tweet? Tweight? T-what? Come on. I came of age in the 60′s. The only “tw…” I knew from that era was Twiggy. OK. Maybe with my fishnet stockings, white go-go boots, mini-skirts and halter tops, Twiggy should have made more of an impact on me. But she didn’t. It took ’til now to get hooked on that “tw” sound. [...]

*Updated Monday, July 28th!* Tweightloss Challenge #1 is officially FULL!  We have about 70 people participating.  WOW!  We had such an amazing response that we are already taking names and emails for Tweightloss Challenge #2!! If you are interested, drop me an email at: tweightloss [at] gmail [dot] com. What’s that I say? TWEIGHTLOSS. The other night I was on [...]

I’ve been a parent for decades. I’ve been a grandparent for 7+ years, eight times over. Wouldn’t you think that by now I’d have learned a thing or two about contradictory messages and rhetorical questions? Well, no. I haven’t. For example, just this morning IN MY CAR I handed chocolate covered doughnuts to my my 2 and 3-year old grandsons [...]