Just Pick Up the Phone

July 24, 2011

A sister is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. – Author Unkown Last week I heard on the news that a woman was suing her sister and Duke University over a pair of college basketball tickets. “How could family members get to the point of suing one another for basketball tickets?,” […]

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What Makes a Difference

July 6, 2011

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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Packing Up: Moving On and a Visit to Ground Zero

June 20, 2011

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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Love & Marriage: A Carriage Ride in Central Park

June 9, 2011

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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Halfway Through: Smiles, Sighs & What a Pain in the @*!

May 24, 2011

If you want to make G-d laugh, tell him about your plans. – Woody Allen This has been tough. My blog partner and I embarked on this 52 Week challenge focused on moving forward, growing and getting “unstuck”.  We vowed to try new things, work on our relationships with significant others, face fears, rediscover old […]

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Lose the Clutter, Find Your Life?

May 18, 2011

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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Mother’s Day with Blueberries on Top

May 8, 2011

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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A Walk in the Woods

April 20, 2011

“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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Single in the City

April 15, 2011

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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Duh! Flying! Winning at 35,000 Feet

April 6, 2011

Article first published as Duh! Flying! Winning at 35,000 Feet on Technorati. If black boxes survive air crashes — why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff? – George Carlin I hate flying.  I hate everything about it. I hate the airport. I hate the lines. I hate that I have to […]

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