Patience – Wordless Wednesday

March 9, 2011

If only my patience with my children were as great as my love for them. TweetShare

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International Woman’s Day – A Tribute to Our Nanny

March 8, 2011

Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a day to celebrate achievement, shed light on inspiration, and call attention to women’s issues the world over. I’d like to mark today with a few words about an uncelebrated but much loved woman who has graced our lives. Miss E. Miss E. was our nanny for several years. [...]

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Healthier Meal Makeovers in The Motherhood

March 6, 2011

Food feeds so much more than your belly. Grandmas the world over know that food is love. And you know that I love food. There was a time I could say “I love to eat” in seven languages. I could travel to every continent and be fed. Never mind that I didn’t know how to [...]

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Hottie – 5:00 Fridays

March 4, 2011

I have a brown thumb. I mean, yes, of course I literally have a brown thumb, two of them, as well as the other eight fingers. I am brown, after all. I mean I have a brown thumb in the figurative sense. Every year I try to grow a garden to sustain us. I manage [...]

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Digital Downsides

March 3, 2011

When I wrote my college history thesis back in 1990 I spent hours poking around the stacks at Alderman Library. It was dank, musty, and oh so very creepy. I had to cite primary resources, and there was no such thing as the Internet. I endured many a paper cut thumbing through old letters, yearbooks, [...]

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Celebrating Dr. Seuss’ Birthday – Wordless Wednesday

March 2, 2011

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What’s for dinner?

March 1, 2011

I write and tweet and post a lot about food. And you know I have strong opinions. Food consumes me almost as much as I consume it. If you have a hankering for shrimp but want to scamper away from the scampi, here’s one of my favorites I posted over at TypeAParent. Shrimp Curry. File [...]

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American Express PASS

February 28, 2011

I have had a long love affair with American Express. Never mind that my love affair with Mac Daddy started there when we worked together. I wrote a paper about the American Express brand in graduate school that got accolades from a published, well regarded branding consultant who actually works with the blue box folks [...]

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Spring Sorbet – 5:00 Fridays

February 25, 2011

Bird was sick last week. Then Mac Daddy came home with the flu. Deal has so far been spared. I am the flu’s latest victim. I shan’t bore you with the phlegmy, fatigued details of my malady. Suffice it to say that I haven’t an appetite for coffee, food, or wine. You see the gravity [...]

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Healthier Meal Makeovers FREE Cooking Class!

February 23, 2011

I’m co-hosting an upcoming class in the Web’s first-ever virtual cooking school, Cooking Connections, and I would love for all of you to join me!  Here’s what you need to know to participate: When: Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 1 p.m. ET Where: TheMotherhood – here is the link to the page where the class will [...]

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