Yeah, Jennifer! You looked fab! Time for my Random Thoughts on the Academy Awards 2011. But first…I wonder how many times a Anne Hathaway got up in the middle of the night to change her nightgown? I think my sister Liz summed up last night Oscar’s best in an email to me this morning: The [...]
Yes, yes, we’re all know about Tigers Moms, thanks to Amy Chua and the Wall Street Journal. If you’re like me, you like the idea of having an Animal Mom Persona, but the Tiger Mom way is simply not your style. Maybe you couldn’t care less about your child’s string instrument mastery. No worries, the [...]
Today, I crossed over. No, people, I’m not dead. (But the next life phase may kill me!) I am officially a Mother of Teenagers. ONLY teenagers. No babies, toddlers, little guys. Colin, my little ground hog, turns 13 today. Goodbye, Tweens. Hello, All Teens All the Time! I started to feel a touch wistful yesterday, [...]
Good Monday Morning, Chaos Crew. I have a new motto when it comes to managing my work/life schedule: it’s all material! When you write and talk about your Chaotic life on a daily basis, there’s a relief knowing that a week like last week, one requiring full focus and limited sleep, can somehow be used [...]
One of the great joys of being out and about with Helen of Pasadena is being on the other side of the microphone, so to speak. As most of you know, I enjoy talking. But usually, I am the one doing the prep work and the producing and eventually the questioning. After a series of [...]
Hi all.. Welcome to Season 4 of the Chaos Chronicles podcast! Thanks for hanging in there with me. I appreciate your support, as always. I’m looking forward to another season of shows on modern motherhood and everything else that is involved in living a Chaotic Life! If there is one thing I have learned about [...]
Will I need the fake tan and the gold dust again to go to the Gracies in 2011? Time will tell. Hello, Chaos Crew… I am multi-tasking: writing my To Do List and listening to some Satellite Sisters and Chaos Chronicles podcasts for possible Gracies entries. If you haven’t listened to the Satellite Sisters podcast [...]
Like many of you, I’m sure, the more I read about the victims of the shooting in Tuscon, the more senseless this act of violence becomes. Further proof that gun violence does not discriminate: a nine year- old girl just elected to her student council; a judge and father; an enthusiastic congressional aide engaged to [...]
Let's Dance in 2011 Last year’s strategy of branding my annual To Do List really worked out for me, so I am trying to again. This year, my rallying cry is going to be “Let’s Dance.” To me, Let’s Dance conjures up motion, engagement and creativity. It’s a phrase that’s both positive and uplifting. And, [...]
I feel like it’s the last day of summer camp. We’ve sung the songs, we’ve lit our memory candles and tonight we’re going to push our beds together in the middle of the cabin and cry ourselves to sleep. That’s because it’s time to say good-bye for now to my BFF, J.Jill. Two of the [...]
