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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

Lessons Sandy Taught Me

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Jackie Moffett. She is funny, smart, a former PR maven and an amazing writer. Most important, she is a wife, mother, daughter, sister and a great friend. We reached out to Jackie to write for the52weeks.com after months of following her inspiring journey helping Hurricane Sandy victims. We are […]

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categoryPosted: 03/17/13 4:42 AM

I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. –Lily Tomlin Everyone who can is helping and everyone should. My story is not unlike so many others, so instead I thought I’d share a few words about the power of giving back courtesy of some 11 year olds. In […]

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categoryPosted: 11/12/12 10:48 AM

Why I Can’t Write After Sandy

by Karen Amster-Young

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing’s going to get better. It’s not. — Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax I am trying to write, trying to work on my book today and I can’t. I  can’t stop thinking about how many people have been impacted by this horrible storm. The news coverage is incessant. […]

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categoryPosted: 11/2/12 7:34 AM

I am in the process of moving. While my family is excited about this next chapter and the new possibilities that await us, we are going tentatively, with many, many mixed emotions. I have been thinking about how many memories and emotions are tied up in all of this.  And one such big memory is […]

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categoryPosted: 06/20/11 12:49 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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categoryPosted: 06/9/11 10:16 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

“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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categoryPosted: 03/17/11 11:34 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

Untitled, Art

by Karen Amster-Young

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings… Boy With Pail… Kitten On Fire…Steven Wright, comedian. “I don’t get it.” Remember the great scene from the classic movie Big, when Tom Hank’s character (a boy that literally becomes an adult overnight after making a wish at a carnival) raises his hand […]

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categoryPosted: 02/15/11 1:02 AM