Guest Posts

A Change that Saved My Life

by Karen Amster-Young

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 […]

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categoryPosted: 08/27/12 8:45 AM

This is a guest post by Nicole Wolfrath. We met Nicole serendipitously through a mutual friend that neither of us knew the other was connected to. It was only through our respective blogs and our appearance at the 92nd St. Y that it all came full circle. We love when good stuff comes from getting […]

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categoryPosted: 05/13/12 1:33 PM

This is a guest post by Amy Gutman. Amy is a writer, lawyer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Salon, the Huffington Post, and The New York Law Journal to name a few. She is the author of two suspense novels, Equivocal Death and The Anniversary  (Little, […]

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categoryPosted: 04/30/12 9:35 AM

What is a Baritone?

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post from John Malik and the first male guest blogger for the52weeks.com. Originally from New Orleans, John Malik is the author of the novel Doughnuts for Amy. He and his wife Amy owned and operated 33 Liberty Restaurant in Greenville, SC from 2001 until 2008. John received a James Beard semi-finalist […]

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categoryPosted: 04/10/12 12:42 PM

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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categoryPosted: 03/13/12 11:14 AM

My Journey from Fashion to Passion

by Karen Amster-Young

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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categoryPosted: 03/8/12 5:10 PM

Yoga, In the Flesh

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Diana Spechler.  She is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for The New York Times, GQ, O Magazine, Esquire, New York Magazine, Self, Details, The Wall Street Journal, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She is also a Moth StorySLAM winner and […]

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categoryPosted: 01/19/12 1:07 PM

Hello My Name Is…

by Karen Amster-Young

Did you read our update on the52weeks?  Check out what’s going on with the blog here. This is a guest post from Jami Kelly. She is happily single, lives in New York City and is continuously getting “unstuck” doing amazing, interesting things. Jami’s last post for the52weeks covered some big ideas for getting unstuck and […]

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categoryPosted: 09/22/11 1:08 PM

This is a guest post by Barbara Hannah Grufferman.  She is the author of  the hugely popular book, The Best of Everything After 50: The Experts’ Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More.  The 52 Weeks is all about trying new things, facing challenges and moving forward; it’s about crossing things off your to-do […]

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categoryPosted: 05/18/11 8:46 PM

Single in the City

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Jami Kelly.  She is happily single, lives in New York City and is continuously getting “unstuck” doing amazing, interesting things.  If  some of her great adventures motivate even one person to do something new or different — even something small —  the52weeks is doing what it was intended to […]

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categoryPosted: 04/15/11 10:05 AM