I’ve had the unique opportunity to be both an attendee and a member of the faculty at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. As an attendee, at my first conference, with one local newspaper column Under my belt, I arrived petrified (not petrified like a Wooly Mammoth but petrified like a chocolate addict who’s run out of her stash of M&Ms).…
When you are going on TV to promote your book, you expect that you will be talking about… your book. You do NOT expect that you are going to be talking about vibrators. Was there a mention of vibrators in my book? Well, yes, actually, there was. About two sentences. However, most of the book is about becoming a mom,…
As I write this blog, I’m sitting on a plane headed home from Chicago. This was the last stop on my Lost in Suburbia Six City Cool Mom Book and Blow Dry Bar Tour and I have to say… it’s been a blast! I loved being able to spend time with friends I usually only “see” online, and make a…
I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day yesterday and no one got a vacuum cleaner as a gift (unless it was a really good vacuum cleaner). I got breakfast in bed, lots of hugs, and the chance to be on stage with 19 amazing women for the New York City Listen to Your Mother Show. Everyone’s stories were incredible.…
The next stop on my Lost in Suburbia “Six City Cool Mom Book and Blow Dry Bar Tour” was Los Angeles. But before I could fly out there, I had an appearance on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” with Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly. And when I say before, I mean, an hour before I had to be at…
This one I can’t blame on the dog. Yes, he was with me when I went for a run, turned my ankle on some big old rusty bolt in the street, fell down and broke my thumb, but it wasn’t his fault. In fact, he curled up next to me and didn’t leave my side until I was able to…
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I think it might have to do with those brain cells I lost in childbirth. 36 hours of labor will do that to you. Or maybe it was the fact that I was distracted while I was working on some stuff for my book signing at Watchung Books tonight (7pm at 54…