As I’ve mentioned on my blog before, I’m working with P&G right now on their Stateside Blogger Brigade for P&G’s Thank You Mom 2012 Olympic Games campaign. This is a dream project for me because I’m a true lover and fan of the whole “Thank you, Mom” campaign. I’m that mom that watches the “Thank you, Mom” campaign video over [...]

I was a competitive swimmer from the time I was 4 years old, all the way through my freshman year at Brown University. For 15 years of my life, the water was “home” to me. I loved to swim. I loved to compete. I loved putting in the long hours of pool time, weight time and dry land time. It [...]

Today is one of those day’s – I’m just not having a good hair day. It’s just not doing what I want it to do… this always seems to happen on a day that I actually need it to look good!  Perfect hair doesn’t do me any good at school pick-up, well… that is unless my sons happen to notice [...]

It was on Saturday afternoon that I began to crave Beef Stew. It was raining… slushing, really, here in Rhode Island. It was cold.  Chills cold.  And a rare Halloween weekend snowstorm was in the forecast for Saturday night into Sunday morning. Of course I craved Beef Stew! I grew up with meat.  I came home from school on Fall [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my grandson Ben and a little stuffed animal he “won” in one of those Claw Toy Machines… aka (in my  household) The Loser Machine. I think I totally caved into The Loser Machine hype when I wrote:  I now think all of those stuffed animals in the enticingly shiny, mirrored quarter-gobbling machine [...]

Sometimes when we contemplate the age old question of why we are what we are… maybe we should just look at old 8 mm movies. My Mom is the one in the blue swimsuit with the white trim.  Isn’t she just lovely beyond belief?  She still is.  Her cousin Claire, now deceased, is the one in the black & white [...]

It is not Father’s Day or my dad’s birthday (though it will be next week!) or my parents’ anniversary… but I recently found something beautiful that my mom wrote about my dad a long time ago and I asked her if I could share it. Way back in the summer of 1981, when I was not yet a year old, [...]