This blog was created by two friends who made a pledge to try something new, fun, challenging, or even ridiculous every week for a year. At times, life got in the way, but we forged ahead. Our stories have educated, entertained or inspired many. In 2012, we hope to inspire many others to get better, get moving or get over it!
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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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Posted: 04/30/12 9:35 PM
Apr
10
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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Posted: 04/10/12 12:42 PM
I know some of you prefer to win tickets to the Super Bowl (Go Giants!). Or, maybe you still haven’t landed tickets to the amazing The Book of Mormon on Broadway (I haven’t either). We can’t help you there but we can help you score tickets to the 92nd Street Y for a night of [...]
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Posted: 01/24/12 9:02 AM
Jan
19
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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Posted: 01/19/12 1:07 PM
Dec
20
“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” -Woody Allen I recently took my first Kabbalah class. It is something I have been meaning to do for a very long time. I am not sure why it took me so long to get [...]
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Posted: 12/20/11 2:17 PM
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner When I read a few months ago that Glee actress Lea Michele had joined PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in a campaign to end horse-drawn carriage [...]
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Posted: 06/9/11 10:16 AM
Apr
15
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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Posted: 04/15/11 10:05 AM
Mar
22
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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Posted: 03/22/11 9:58 PM
“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.” — Isaac Stern I don’t know why it took me so long. About twenty years and ten minutes to be exact. Twenty years to make plans to go and then a 10-minute cab ride and there I was, standing [...]
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Posted: 03/17/11 11:34 PM
Feb
25
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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Posted: 02/25/11 12:57 PM
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