Argentinian Wine Pairing Dinner at Brasserie Persil My husband and I frequent Brasserie Persil quite often. We love that the food there is consistently flavorful. Lately, whenever we go, we see a flyer for a wine pairing dinner. Unfortunately, we usually can't go but the other night, we went and...
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The Girl’s Guide to Vitamins at Every Age by Dr. Christopher Calapai
The Girl's Guide to Vitamins at Every Age The plethora of vitamins on the market reads like the alphabet- literally from A- Zinc. Do we, as women need to guzzle 50 a day to be healthy? How do we make heads or tails from what the media tell us? And...
It’s All About The Butter
It's all about the butter... (not the bass, the butter!) The other evening, I went out to dinner with my daughter, Zoey and her boyfriend, Dan. We went to a small Italian restaurant in SoHo. As we were sitting there, the waiter brought us over bread without butter or olive...
Reflections from an Empty Nester
As my son went off to school, everyone kept asking me, "what are you going to do now that you're an empty nester?" Reflecting back on the past 18 years, I can still vividly remember taking my son home from the hospital. I can also remember taking my daughter home...
Pivotal Living Fitness Tracker
What would you say if I told you I got a fitness tracker for $12 a year? That’s why I decided to check out the Pivotal Living fitness tracker. I was intrigued with the price and wondered how good it could be. The first one came in with a dead...
Allendale Fire Department Meets Aerosmith
Photo Credit I'm a softy for the Fire Department. So when my friend, Rich Shinnick asked me to help him spread the word about a raffle that would benefit the Allendale Fire Department, I said YES! But this raffle isn't just any raffle, it's to get a fire helmet signed by...
Sitting Inside During a Snowstorm
While I’m sitting in my living room with the lights off during the first major snowstorm of 2016, I watch as the snow falls steadily from the sky and observe how the wind is blowing everything around. I’m looking out my big picture windows at my neighbor across the street. It’s...
What’s up with Kuwait Airways?
The day before Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, an article appeared in the New York Times on Kuwait Airways decision to cancel all flights from New York to London because they didn't want Israelis to fly on their planes. When I read this, I was shocked! To me, any type of discrimination no matter...
Do We Still Need Wait Staff?
Do we still need wait staff? My daughter and I said to each other when we went to David Burke's restaurant in Bloomingdale's in New York City. We were greeted by a waiter who told us to sit where we like. He advised us to review the iPad on the table and...
The Other Day I Bought Carpet
The other day I bought carpet... I've had the same carpet in my bedrooms for the last 20 years. So, my husband and I decided since we were already painting and moving everything that we should buy carpet for the bedrooms. We went to our local carpet store and talked...