June 13th, 2011

A friend of mine recently published a book – a chick-lit novel set in New York – my favorite kind! I downloaded it onto my iPad (LOVE that) and read it on my flight to Toronto last week: 8 uninterrupted hours for good old girl talk. Funny that I didn’t meet this writer friend through…

June 08th, 2011

My daughter and I were watching Pocahontas together this morning and after the Native American beauty and her father let John Smith go free, Nina asked me if her own daddy would still be alive when she was Pocahontas’ age? “Of course,” I replied. “But you’ll be dead?” she inquired. “No, I’ll still be here,…

May 31st, 2011

UCChorus This past weekend I had the tremendous pleasure of heading off to Toronto to sing with the Upper Canada Children’s Chorus – truly a world-class choral institution. The irony of course was that I had to leave my own two children (goop) to sing about motherhood alongside 370 children of others (glamour), but what…

May 25th, 2011

Glamour and Goop: It says it all, honestly. The life of any mother – the myriad activities that make up a day, whether for children, husbands, friends, family, work, home … seldom celebrated (but for our own inner self-congratulations, if we are sufficiently caffeinated) yet always necessary. last longer for men Georgia and I have…