What combines fabulous fashion, great fun, and the friendly mingling of shoppers and celebrities?
SUPER SATURDAY… an annual “Designer Garage Sale” sponsored by Donna Karan and InStyle to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund was founded in 1994, and its mission is to fund cancer research into early detection and ultimately a [...]

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If it is true that the pleasure of love is in loving… then my pleasure in life has just been multiplied beyond measure!
Yesterday morning, at 10:49 am, our newest little grandchild entered our world!
Our hearts and arms and souls welcome beautiful and healthy Dylan Joseph. 8 lbs. 3 oz. Dylan is the baby brother to [...]

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Twitter? Tweet? Tweight? T-what?
Come on. I came of age in the 60’s. The only “tw…” I knew from that era was Twiggy.
OK. Maybe with my fishnet stockings, white go-go boots, mini-skirts and halter tops, Twiggy should have made more of an impact on me. But she didn’t.
It took [...]

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I’ve been a parent for decades.
I’ve been a grandparent for 7+ years, eight times over.
Wouldn’t you think that by now I’d have learned a thing or two about contradictory messages and rhetorical questions? Well, no. I haven’t.
For example, just this morning IN MY CAR I handed chocolate covered doughnuts to my my [...]

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Many grandparents I know, including me, scan weekend newspaper guides for local children’s activities. Many of us plan vacation trips around the desires and needs of our grandchildren. And most of us love to entertain our grandchildren at our homes, or at the homes of our children and grandchildren.
It’s just what grandparents do.
But [...]

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I smell good.
The kind of good where a clerk at my local coffee shop told me so.
Really good.
Like the kind of really good where my 2 1/2 year old grandson told me so.
Really, really good. The kind of really, really good (try not to read this, girls!) where my husband told me so as [...]

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I offer no apologies.
I wore a fanny pack this morning to my granddaughter’s swim meet.
Not that this decision hasn’t given my children something to revel in for the rest of eternity…
This is how it began.
It is hot here in New England today. 90-some odd degree hot. I was excitedly getting ready to head [...]

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Wishes.
We all have them.
Stories, legends myths and fairy tales are built around them.
And children delight in them.
This morning, my 3-year old grandson was walking barefooted to the car. He “ouched” and “ohh-ed” as his little feet touched random stones and pebbles. But as he passed a little section of clover in his lawn, [...]

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So night before last I’m sitting at the busy bar of a hot, hip club in New York City talking to a cute, well-dressed, direct-eye-contact sort of guy who was born in 1976 and has developed a love of vodka martinis, straight up with 2 olives, along with a curious interest in the manners and [...]

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Oh, boy.
And I mean “Boy” with a capital B.
And my morning began with such promise…
The New England humidity had broken. The early morning sky was baby blue and filled with whispy, innocent clouds. The sun offered such warmth and delight. My husband and I took a brisk, dawn-inspired walk though our little [...]

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