Jodi Garner is the Associate Director of Development and Institutional Advancement at The City College of New York. She is also an aspiring Broadway producer. She lives in New York City with her twelve year old boy/girl twins. When Jodi heard that one of our chapters in our forthcoming book was about mid-life career changes, […]
Posted: 12/8/12 2:11 AM
This is a guest post by Robin Gorman Newman. Robin became a midlife mom at age 42, and it changed her life in ways she couldn’t have imagined. Soon, Motherhood Later (MLTS) was born – an organization for older moms. Robin is also Associate Producer of Motherhood Out Loud, which ran off-Broadway in New York and is now touring. […]
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Posted: 09/28/12 1:44 AM
This is a guest post by Amie Valpone, HHC, AADP and author of The Healthy Apple. She is a Manhattan based Culinary Nutritionist, Personal Chef, Professional Recipe Developer and Food Writer specializing in simple Gluten-Free ‘Clean’ recipes for the home cook. She writes for the Huffington Post, GenConnect and other publications. Her story is intense and inspiring […]
Posted: 08/27/12 8:45 AM
We are happy to share another entry from our 52 Writers for 52 Weeks outreach. It’s been amazing for us to receive so many guest posts from people all over the country. Susan Boyles is retired from the US Army and a former small business owner. She is an avid cook who now teaches cooking classes […]
Posted: 06/26/12 9:40 AM
This is a guest post by Marni Heller. Full disclosure: Marni is one of my (Karen’s) oldest friends since the college years. She is creative, driven, funny, and fashionable. She is a wife, mother, daughter, sister and a great friend. I have many fond memories of our “entrepreneurial” endeavors together many years ago. She was […]
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Posted: 03/13/12 11:14 AM
This is a guest post by Marni Heller. Full disclosure: Marni is one of my (Karen’s) oldest friends since the college years. She is creative, driven, funny, and fashionable. She is a wife, mother, daughter, sister and a great friend. I have many fond memories of our “entrepreneurial” endeavors together many years ago. She was […]
Posted: 03/8/12 5:10 PM
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas. ~ Paula Poundstone I was having a conversation with an acquaintance recently and after mentioning to her that I am looking to go back to work on a full-time basis again, she said to me […]
Posted: 10/31/11 8:34 AM
Forget about bungee jumping: Try being over 40 and thinking about a new career. Now that will make you shake in your new Manolo Blahnik studded fringe boots (or, in my case, new, New Balance sneakers). I think, for me, it started with baseball cards. I was a “tomboy” for a few years when I […]
Posted: 10/13/10 10:33 PM
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