My niece and I take Belly Dancing together. It’s a joyous way for us to connect and get moving. It’s also a bit more challenging than I anticipated! Getting my hips shimmy-ing for 10 minutes straight is no small feat! Before our class started, our fab...
As parents, we focus a lot on our kids’ education. Of course! We want our kids to have skills that prepare them for life. We want them to know how to read and write. We want them to have their math skills and a sense of the world, in terms of geography and...
This week I have a fantastic guest blogger! I asked Sheryl Stoller of stollerparentcoaching.com an experienced and wise parent coach for advice on how us busy moms can deal with all the demands and pressure we face. In this era of supermom so many moms are exhausted...
Check me out here this week talking about how I make Halloween healthy – well…healthier anyway. I was interviewed by the infinitely savvy blogger Rachel Zimmerman from the Commonhealth wbur (Boston’s NPR news source) blog....
Let’s face it, in our busy culture, it often feels like we’re on the road. We’re carpooling the kids, we’re shlepping them to after-school activities, we’re doing our household errands. We are in motion! This kind of lifestyle calls for...
I’m leaving paradise : ( Every summer my kids, husband and I visit my mom at her cottage north of Toronto. While I’m there I get into a fabulous groove of doing Yoga on the deck every morning. It’s bliss. I want to share a bit of that bliss with you,...