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26Nov

Year Of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun And Be Your Own Person

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Year Of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun And Be Your Own Person starts with a very powerful quote by Maya Angelou: The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. I knew this book would resonate given my fixation with women like Shonda Rhimes. She's not only a creative force but a feminist - someone who speaks her mind and stands up for issues she believes in. She uses her Thursday night platform so carefully, telling stories that demand telling, exploring issues that demand exploration. She's also a working mom, like me, and Read More

03Jun

Look at a Book: The Hand On the Mirror

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In 2004, Janis Heaphy Durham’s husband, Max Besler, died of esophageal cancer at age fifty-six. While coping with her grief, Heaphy Durham began encountering phenomena unlike anything she had ever experienced: lights flickering, doors opening and closing, clocks stopping at 12:44—the exact time Max died. But then something startling happened that changed Heaphy Durham’s life forever: a powdery handprint spontaneously appeared on her bathroom mirror on the first anniversary of Max’s death. Incredibly, a similar image appeared on the second and third Read More

08Sep

My Ad Hoc This is Where I Leave You Book Club

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Tonight turned into a very unusually spectacular Sunday night, and I owe it to all to a book. A few close friends popped over (well, it was planned) to discuss the book This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Armed with a bottle of Prosecco and snacks in a dimly lit room, we were all excited to talk about the book at hand. We had never had a book club together as I had chosen the group myself, based on a group of women I felt would truly gel and potentially have an interesting discussion together. We were different personalities and origins, Read More

21Oct

Are You Lost in Suburbia?

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Join us for a twitter party to celebrate the launch of Lost in Suburbia Stories, a new site that celebrates the challenges of being a mom. Are you lost in suburbia? It's much more than needing directions when you get off the Turnpike. It happens to a lot of women after having kids, and it's easy to think you're alone. But you're not. Talk to any mom after she's given birth and you'll find we all have a similar story. One that involves a changing identity, a new waistline and new challenges. Tracy Beckerman, the author of Lost in Suburbia: A Read More

11Oct

A Book Club’s Response to Gone Girl: Don’t Marry a Psychopath

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Last night my book club discussed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. If your book club is looking for a juicy read, I have to say this was a great discussion. You won't find a book with more twists and turns than this one. Everyone in the group had a visceral reaction. But before we get into that, let's discuss the plot. We meet two seemingly normal people, Nick and Amy, who met 7 years ago at a party in NYC. For all appearances sake, they were a normal, happy couple. In her diary, Amy wrote about it: Tra and la! I am smiling a big adopted-orphan Read More