We didn't know that these would be the last words that my 88 year old mother would utter, but it turned out that they were. "Shut up!" she barked at me and my sisters who had congregated in the emergency room of White Plains Hospital. There were seven of us in that...
At a friend's 40th birthday party the guest of honor ceremonially opened her gifts, one by one, and acknowledged the person who gave it to her. As she got closer to the gold-wrapped box I'd brought, my heart started to beat more rapidly. Id' been having an...
Apologies for the lack of paragraphs. I'd prefer to get these up and out by cutting and pasting rather than re-keystroking. I’m not sure there’s ever been a gender attached to this entity, but let’s assume my first love was male. And his name was Sugar.Of course, I...
A work in progress... I hung our graduate school degrees from Columbia over our marital bed. My husband's on the left where he slept, and mine on the right. Mine was actually delayed in its receipt as I took an incomplete in the pottery course I should have...
Remember that sister I mentioned who cheated me out of my Ginny doll clothes? All I wanted was her attention. She was beautiful, creative, smart and bigger than I was. I wanted to sleep in the bed with her, cuddle, have her love me and pay attention to me. But, no....
This is a work in progress. Names have been changed to protect the truly innocent from my childhood opinions. Even though there were four of us kids, I felt alone. It helped when my brother Jay was born, because I had my own real Betsy Wetsy to take care of and...
Here's my first post since declaring July the time to share more personal, non-entrepreneurial, writing with you. Remember, positive support only. Thank you! A paid job in a theatre company? How lucky could a girl get? I was hired as the property mistress at the...
I love writing. There, I've said it. Growing up, my mother labeled us. "Jane, you're the artist." (Thank God I got that one!) "Meredith, you're the writer. Barbara, you're the pretty one. Andy, you're the funny one." Because my older sister was awarded claim to all...
Since speaking and writing about getting picked, I've become more aware of the invitations I've received from women business owners seeking my support and endorsement. I'm always delighted when successful women like Nancy Williams find me and my blog and view it as...
I rent space from Cynthia Overgard, President and CEO of HypnoBirthing CT. She has a warm and welcoming space in an office building well-located in Westport on the Norwalk/Westport line directly across from Whole Foods and Panera Bread and equi-distant between I-95...
I gave my first public talk last night about my trip around the world to a joint audience of Living All the Way and Ladies Who Launch members and guests. The response was thrilling, and the feedback extremely helpful. An experience I shared that was particularly...
My talk this week about Living 25,000 Miles Outside Your Comfort Zone is Wednesday night. I got my first review after giving a Mastermind colleague of mine a sneak preview. Joan Cavanaugh, who has worlds of experience and has heard thousands of speakers, sent me...
I've known Diane Ripstein since I joined the National Speakers Association in 1997. I knew that she was a communications expert par excellence. I'd seen her present to audiences and demonstrate her vast skills as a business leader and authority on the subject of...
I didn't buy a lot of stuff on my trip, but I do want to show off the few things I did purchase. Of course, my go-to professional for this assignment is always Scarlett DeBease. She was here this morning for under three hours, and we (she, really) came up with 36...
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