My little nephew Henry, who has grown from this tiny little thing, in his Auntie Janie’s arms…

into a happy, joyous bundle of love…

turns one year old today.
It seems like just yesterday I was tweeting about and excitedly announcing his arrival.
But yesterday I was actually at the 140 Characters Conference in NYC with Audrey, where the [...]

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Last Tuesday I spent the day in New York City with my friend Sarah. We hadn’t seen each other since the photo shoot for the Hot Blogger Calendar back in October (OCTOBER! It had been that long!?), so we were long overdue for some quality time together. (And really, who needs an excuse to meet [...]

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Last night my mom, dad, Audrey and I went out to dinner to celebrate Audrey’s 31st birthday. Yes, her birthday was a week earlier, on May 23, but it fell on Memorial Day weekend, and it was a pretty jam-packed weekend at that, so the birthday dinner was pushed to May 30.
It’s funny that Audrey [...]

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I always knew that I had a special relationship with my mom.
But it took me awhile longer to realize that not every daughter had a mother like mine.
I guess, when I was younger, I thought that all mothers were just like mine.
I thought that all mothers woke their daughters each morning with a loving kiss [...]

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If I’m walking like I just learned to walk (come to think of it, it’s not a matter of if at all), there’s a good reason for it. My legs took me on a 26.2 jaunt on Sunday from Providence, RI to my hometown of Barrington, RI - and back - for the Cox Providence [...]

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When Audrey and I were younger, even though we each had our own rooms, we preferred to sleep together on the pull-out couch in our parents’ bedroom. We call it the pull-out-couch era.
I don’t remember when or why it started - or even when or why it ended. I was probably around 9 or 10 [...]

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I got to spend a little time with my oldest brother’s two kids last evening. I had gone out to dinner with one of my oldest friends, and then had plans to swim with my sister-in-law. Since I had some free time between dinner and swimming, I headed over to my brother and sister-in-law’s house [...]

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One thing I love about having a lot of siblings is that it yields a lot of nieces and nephews.
And together we all get to do really fun things.
Four years ago, in 2004, my parents decided to get tickets for all of us - all 15 of us, at that time - to see the [...]

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Nine years ago, in 1999, Audrey and I headed to New York City for the summer. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was taking a course at NYU. Audrey was going into her senior year of college and interning for The View.
We lived in an NYU dorm, in a suite with [...]

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Like most people, I remember the exact moment that I heard about the attacks on 9/11.
I was in college at the time, and I had a 9:00-10:20am journalism class that morning. I had gotten to class a little early, around 8:45am, and settled in.
It was around that very time that the first plane hit the [...]

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