It’s A Bloggy Blog World

| March 21, 2013

For those of you who don’t know, about 2 weeks ago, I went up to Toronto to see her and her family and for one very special occasion. Emily, her oldest, was turning 12 and having her bat mitzvah. I have had the date of the party on my calendar for close to a year. [...]

BlogHer 2012: YOLO

| August 7, 2012

I went to BlogHer. Well, that isn’t really true. I went to New York City the same weekend that a giant blogging conference was being held. My friends were going to be there and the conference organizers score an awesome hotel rate for NYC in the summer. I had no intentions of going to any [...]

Make It Rain

| June 4, 2012

Well, that was a long break from blogging that I took. It wasn’t really intentional. I mean, let’s be honest, my writing in the last year or so has been sparse at best. I just don’t feel like writing when I get home. Normally I can blame it on working out and running taking up [...]

A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That

| April 18, 2012

I’m pretty sure in almost six years of blogging (SIX? Holy crap!) I have used this blog title before. But I’m too lazy to go back and look and I’ll know once it posts and has a 2 after the title. That is WordPress’ way of being all “YOU LACK CREATIVITY, JACKASS.” So what’s new, [...]

City Mouse

| January 10, 2012

I’m a city girl. I think I always have been. Even though I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, I’ve always been drawn to big cities. When I moved back to Illinois in 2005, I made a promise to myself that I would live in the city. I didn’t care where I ended up [...]