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The 52 Weeks:  Two Women and Their Quest to Get Unstuck, with Stories and Ideas to Jumpstart Your Year of Discovery is finally here!             HERE’S WHERE WE’LL BE!   OCT 23          MORE MAGAZINE GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT 6:30-9pm     DREAM Downtown Hotel, 355 West 16th St., NYC Join us for a first […]

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categoryPosted: 10/7/13 4:18 AM

Getting Unstuck in Boston

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Peggy Barons. Peggy contacted the52weeks.com and told us about how she has been getting unstuck with a group of women in Boston. Pretty incredible. When we heard about everything she was doing, we had to share her story. There is no doubt that what she has crossed off her […]

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categoryPosted: 10/21/12 10:03 PM

Dancing With The…

by Karen Amster-Young

“If you get tangled up, just Tango on…” — Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman, 1992 “You write better than you dance,” my husband joked as we awkwardly tried to do the Rumba.   The last time we took a dance lesson was the obligatory, “I am twenty-something”, pre-wedding dance lessons 100 years ago. Let me […]

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categoryPosted: 10/13/11 4:18 PM

Escaping to Mexico…Sort of!

by Karen Amster-Young

Note: This post was written before Hurricane Irene was approaching.  I hope everyone is safe and sound and enjoys the last week of August now that Irene has passed… One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila…More! —  adapted from George Carlin The Hamptons is a popular summer destination for many New Yorkers.   There are beautiful sunsets, […]

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categoryPosted: 08/29/11 2:38 AM

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” — The Golden Girls The years go by so fast.  Mother’s Day was always, rightfully so, about my mom.  Growing up and thankfully still to this day, we would all be together. Sometimes it was just immediate family; other times there […]

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categoryPosted: 05/8/11 4:22 AM

A Walk in the Woods

by Pam Godwin

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.  She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.”~ Ellen DeGeneres There is a nature preserve and a trail beyond the backyard and past the deer fence of my weekend getaway house. I look out the kitchen window every time […]

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categoryPosted: 04/20/11 11:40 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

Poker Face

by Pam Godwin

Life is like a game of poker: if you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out. – Jackie ”Moms” Mabley, comedian A dark smoky room filled with men, the muffled sound of chips hitting the felt table, and silent tension hanging in the air is what one usually imagines. […]

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categoryPosted: 03/22/11 9:58 AM

Meditating on the Downbeat

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Laurey Bennett-Levy, a dear old friend who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two beautiful daughters.  An early supporter of the52weeks, she was inspired to go drumming recently — although if you ask anyone that knows Laurey she has always been one to try new things!    This […]

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categoryPosted: 02/25/11 12:57 PM

Rise and Shine!

by Pam Godwin

“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early, and it’s not jogging or greeting the day. It’s just that that’s when they make doughnuts.” – Kathy Griffin, comedian Some people are, by nature, early risers: best work done before 9am.  Me – not so much… I am generally not what you would call […]

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categoryPosted: 02/17/11 9:45 PM