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Giveaway: Listen to Your Mother on Mother’s Day in NYC

May 5, 2013 by 2 Comments
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  What are you doing on Mother's Day?  I have a brilliant idea for you. Spend the morning and early afternoon with your family. Make the day about them and you and celebrate being together.  At 4pm tell them you are taking a few hours to yourself.  You will be doing something for YOU. As part of your celebration, it's important for you to nourish your soul with a certain something that isn't necessarily meant for kids under the age of 12, hence you need to go alone, or with your mother, your sisters, your aunts, your girlfriends  That … [Read more...]

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When Water is a Women’s Issue

May 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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  Worldwide, nearly 800 million people lack access to safe water, while 2.5 billion live without adequate sanitation. The lack of these essential services has a huge impact on the lives of millions of women and girls around the world. Women and girls spend hours walking for water, an exhausting task that consumes 26% of women’s time in rural Africa. The water they work so hard to collect is often dirty and contaminated with deadly diseases. Water-related diseases are the third biggest killer of children in Africa. It is usually … [Read more...]

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My PR Fail of a Day

May 2, 2013 by 3 Comments
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Let's play a game. What do these pitches have in common? Hi Holly, Consuming fried food usually leaves you filled with regrets, but now there is a healthier way to fry so you can indulge in the food you love more with less guilt. The new #### allows you to prepare your favorite fried dishes with 30 percent less fat and 40 percent faster due to its revolutionary heat combination that keeps cooking oil at a uniform temperature, so foods cook to light, crispy perfection – with less oil absorption. -------------- Hi there,  Hope you are … [Read more...]

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$25 from you = $50 for Mothers2Mothers = a healthier mom & baby

May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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This Mother's Day, it's important to remind ourselves how special every day of the year is.  But it's also important to remember that not every mother around the world is as lucky.  There are mothers living with HIV.  It's easy to forget about them.  Life gets busy.  But they need our help. That's why the campaign I'm about to tell you about is important and it's an easy campaign to slip into your celebration this year. Mothers2Mother's puts mothers living with HIV are at the center of their efforts to eliminate pediatric AIDS and keep … [Read more...]

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My Take on the “Mommy Business Trip” Piece

April 28, 2013 by 6 Comments
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I know I'm rather late to respond to the ridiculous article “The Mommy Business Trip: Conferences Appeal to Women with a Guilt-Free, Child-Free Reason to Leave Home” that ran in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago and you've probably read countless articles featuring other opinions.  But I haven't had a chance until now to respond. Why? I was on a business trip. So, I read the article with great interest at the start, but by the end of the article, I was mortified. Especially when I saw the graphic accompanying the article (see … [Read more...]

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Planning a Girlfriend Trip to Asia: Motherhood and Wanderlust

April 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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  I currently have a 3-part series over at a wonderful site called Go Girlfriend. The first part debuted last week and it was about the planning and thinking process that went into my trip before I left. Why did I want to travel without my family and how was my decision perceived.  It's all in this piece. Here's a snapshot: Every time we told people we were heading on a solo adventure, they immediately assumed we were traveling on business or were having a mid-life crisis. How could I not be traveling with my husband, they asked? Why … [Read more...]

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Parenting Without Borders

April 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Do you ever compare your parenting skills to others? Are you one of those people who pays close attention to how parents around the world are parenting differently? Are you surprised to hear when different skills from across the globe can help or transform your own? Culture Mom Media is thrilled to be teaming up with the author of Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us by Christine Gross-Loh. In her book, she takes readers on a multicultural tour of the world’s best parenting practices – from Finland, … [Read more...]

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Help Make a Childs Wish Come True on World Wish Day, April 29th

April 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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If you ever wonder how you can change a child's life from the seat in your living room, I have a few ideas for you. I first became aware of the Make-a-Wish Foundation about 15 years ago when I was working at at MTV/Nickelodeon.  A colleague of mine was very active with the cause and I knew that her work with the organization was making a real difference in children's lives.  Their work enriches the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. Make-A-Wish was founded in 1980 after a little boy named Chris … [Read more...]

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Review: The Nance – Infectious Vaudeville

April 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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After submerging myself into new mommydom, I feel as though my brain stirred for the first time in 6.75 months.  This is by no means the fault of the city in which I live or the people in my life, by the way.  A night out at Lincoln Center Lyceum Theater's latest production, THE NANCE , opened my eyes to the hypocrisy of the time, the joy of the burlesque, and the search for love in the automat.  And of course, who doesn’t love a cheesy vaudeville skit and pasties? This is the first time my brain has been tickled in months and I loved the … [Read more...]

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Feeling Lost in Suburbia

April 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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I left NYC for the suburbs over ten years ago. I was a real city girl.  You couldn't get me to leave town if you tried. On weekends, I was off to Central Park, to the theater, to hear poetry slams. to eat sushi and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. Then I met my husband, we danced around town for four years, got married, got pregnant and decided our one-bedroom on the Upper West Side was too small. We knew it was time to leave the city. However, I didn't really think about the major changes that lied ahead of me.  Life was about to change … [Read more...]

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