I joined La Leche League in my last month of pregnancy with my first child. I knew that I wanted to breastfeed my baby and needed to learn how. That was the premise of the meetings--to place yourself amongst other breastfeeding women to learn and observe the in's...
I'm off to a running start in 2013 having been tremendously inspired by Seth Godin's event on Wednesday in NYC. It's as if he heard what I was planning for this year and then developed a talk to completely support and encourage my efforts. I believe that when...
This will be my final post for 2012. Last week I had planned to blog about a woman business leader I'd read about and post an entry based on an obituary for the man who invented the bar code. But dealing with the overwhelming sadness and shock of the Newtown...
My Remarkable Women's Network Come As You'll Be event in Westport last week was a real hit. I want to acknowledge the dozens of courageous women who attended, in costume, for taking a look into the unknown and staking a claim for themselves. As attendees...
I've done my homework; created a new vision board to inspire me over the next few years. Here are some teasers to give you a taste of where I'm heading. Anna Deveare Smith, Diana Nyad and Queen Elizabeth are each on my wall now. In addition, I cut out and mounted...
My move to NYC has vaguely resembled my first birth experience. Before my eldest was born, I threw myself into a study of pregnancy, the birth process and breastfeeding via reading, enrolling in Lamaze classes and attending La Leche League meetings. I was...
A few years back at a meeting with friends and colleagues, one woman mentioned that she had to be careful what she envisioned. She referred to herself as a “master manifester” and said that sometimes it frightened her how quickly she manifested exactly what she...
The most challenging part of my move to NYC was getting out of my three-year auto lease. My son-in-law told me about Swap-a-lease dot com which gave me a good head-start. I didn't know it was even possible to do such a thing. Registering on Swap-a-Lease and finding...
I've been a believer in vision boards since seeing ones my friends had created come to fruition. I created my first one in 2005 and quickly brought the images to reality. A more recent rendition has taken longer to manifest. You can see some of the images on the...
I just came across this photo of my first 'studio'. You've heard about businesses starting on a kitchen counter or the back of a napkin. Well, take a look here! I started my business using the edge of a counter in our kitchen. My jars of dye were located under my...
As I've accelerated my decluttering, downsizing phase, I came across a book that I was featured in published by La Leche League in 1984 entitled Of Cradles & Careers by Kaye Lowman. I was combining motherhood and career by running a community-based arts program...
One of my homework commitments, (self-assigned) from the Omega Women & Power weekend last month, was to watch Eve Ensler's TED.com talk about the girl "cell" in each of us. I was inspired by Eve's mission in the world: to stop violence against women,...
My father, who was in retail for most of his career, wrote a book called the Savvy Shopper. He had been a department store executive and knew the ins and outs of how to get the best price on anything. My siblings and I still rib each other when asking how much...
Words can't even begin to describe the sensational Artsy Girls event I attended at the home of Liz Alpert Fay and co-hosted by Victoria Cummings. This dynamic duo met at a previous Artsy Girls dinner and discovered a mutual admiration that developed into a stunning...
I was very fortunate to have made the acquaintance of Virginia (Jinny) Avery seven years ago at the introduction of a mutual friend. We met for lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Greenwich, CT and bonded immediately. I had read books by Jinny when I began quilting in...
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