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I launched this blog in 2008. My mini-me.
Don’t be a perfectionist: 5 steps to recovery
December 22, 2013
I just rewrote my book manuscript for the third time — and it was total agony. The final, two-day push was a marathon effort involving very little sleep, six slices […]
What unplugging taught me about love
December 5, 2013
For the last three months, I experimented with unplugging from social media. My motivation was very practical. I walked into the down time holding an ambitious to-do list. But unplugging […]
June 25, 2013
The past week has been a tornado of teen activity in our house and I wouldn’t have missed it for anything in the world! My daughter Gabi took us through […]
Letting go of the kid so that we can both grow up
May 13, 2013
How did this all happen so fast? My daughter Gabi has only a few days left of high school. Then we’re into prom season, summer goodbyes and then…packing my only […]
How to become a model in Seventeen magazine, Part 3
January 28, 2013
My daughter, now 17, is modeling right this minute in Seventeen magazine for the third time. She’s 17, in Seventeen…sweet!!! The experience taught both of us even more about how she […]
5 reasons why “Beasts of the Southern Wild” inspires me as a parent — & daughter
January 14, 2013
I saw “Beasts of the Southern Wild” with my daughter and it had us both sobbing. We will probably weep again since I’ve ordered a copy of it on Amazon.com — […]
3 Tips for surviving the holidays as a single person
November 26, 2012
What a relief. After a dozen post-divorce years of figuring out how to deal with the holidays, I actually had a very happy, stress-free Thanksgiving. Now I’m sailing into the […]