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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

50 Shades of Red, Black & Blue

by Karen Amster-Young

“Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.” — E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey 50 Shades of Blue I am reading the “book of the moment”, Shades of Grey by [...]

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categoryPosted: 04/4/12 11:14 AM

My Journey from Fashion to Passion

by Pam Godwin

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 11:13 PM

From the Spotlight to Solitude

by Karen Amster-Young

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection.  From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter F. Drucker Last week I appeared on stage with my blog partner at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.  We were part of a panel entitled Women on the Web.  It was our blog’s debut [...]

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categoryPosted: 02/22/12 11:58 AM

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

Ahh…Kabbalah

by Karen Amster-Young

“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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categoryPosted: 12/20/11 2:17 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

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

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 PM

What Makes a Difference

by Karen Amster-Young

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It’s not.  — Dr. Seuss I can’t stop thinking about Lauren Spierer,  the young woman  from Westchester who has been missing since June 3rd.   As  the days and weeks pass, hope seems to fade.  For whatever reason, her disappearance haunts [...]

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categoryPosted: 07/6/11 1:15 PM