I love to travel, try new foods (both simple and "exotic"), ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. Im a big pop culture junkie who isnt afraid to say she loves "In Touch" Magazine! A social marketing expert and psychologist by training who works in the public health field trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
All the world is my television and I like to provide commentary on it.
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The early bird gets the worm plus all the extra work I am generally up at the crack of dawn. If I wake up at 7am, I am waking up either an hour too late or it is a sunday. My son appears to have the early bird […]
What’s an Easter egg hunt or a beach without a dead body: This week’s weird and wacky news Even thousands of miles away, there is a slew of wacky news for me to stay on top of. I experienced my own moment of wackiness when I tried […]
Howl on a bloodstone: belt out your pain Last month in 1957, US. Customs seized hundreds of copies of Allan Ginsberg’s Howl. Today, Howl is free to hang around the shelves of many libraries, no longer subject to massive protests. I, thus, felt inspired to write a little piece. […]
Life on Top in Panama The country of Panama is pretty synonymous with its Canal. think of Panama and you probably first think of the ships passing through from one ocean to the other. Water rules the country. Fish is a large staple of the diet. On Good […]
“Are you punking me?” “No. Mom. I’m not punking you” “Yes, you have to be punking me” “No, mom. I truly am pregnant” “Oh my god. I never thought it would happen. You were so convinced you would never have a baby you had me convinced. I was […]
Traveling to Panama and Getting my Sugar Fix On I am quite notorious for my sweet tooth. When I was pregnant five years ago, many thought I would not be able to give up sweets, but indeed I did. I was highly motivated to do so by […]
Letting my go of my son’s hand Before I was a mom, I certainly had heard of the difficulties parents have of letting go of their kids. There is the universal fearful image or scene of the parents dropping off their kids at college and returning to their […]
Wait! Did I wear this dress yesterday? Much has been made of the fact that both Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton have worn some of their dresses on more than one occasion. Apparently, it is a major social faux pays in the celebrity world to wear a dress […]
Seven and a half things to do this spring Monday to feel the spring-hue happy blues It is a lovely spring morning in New York today, despite it being a Monday. Indeed it is a blue sky Monday with the chubby squirrels gathering up their nuts on the picnic […]
New Yorkers terrorized by a rat and a nine-month attempted murder: this week’s weird and wacky news for me to obsess about Close to two decades ago, I became obsessed with monitoring the news. I vividly remember the television coverage, and that in particular of the […]
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