My favorite gifts to give – and get – are books. If you’re a reader, I don’t think there’s anything more personal, thoughtful and meaningful than a book someone picked out especially for you. So, when my friend Pamela Lear wrote a post for me last April about World Book Night – What?! An annual event…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about my experience as a newly-appointed Shot@Life champion, flying across the country to advocate on Capitol Hill for vaccinations for children around the world. Shot@Life celebrates its first birthday this week, which also happens to be Global Immunization Week (April 24-30). One of the ways we’re marking this…
After this harrowing week, it seemed time for a light and fluffy post so I thought I’d finally write about the macaron baking class I took with my mom and sister at Sur La Table. My mother wanted us to take a cooking class during our annual birthday spa weekend but, since I don’t cook,…
This has been the kind of week that tests the hearts of mothers. On Monday morning, I entered my local movie theater to review 42, where I spent two emotional hours sobbing over how horrible people can be to each other and feeling grateful that my children were growing up in a world where an…
Summer’s on the way and that can only mean one thing – a whole new crop of books to read! Here are the ones I gobbled down during my blissful vacation at the Lake Austin Spa Resort: RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA by Kimberly McCreight Kimberly McCreight’s chilling debut novel is this year’s Gone Girl. Single mom/overworked lawyer…
