Several years ago, a glamorous event planner from New York City moved to mid-Michigan because she fell in love with Chris, a friend of mine. Since becoming part of our…
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As I write this, I am one month from my due date. Also as I write this, infertility struggles that very close friends of mine have gone through or are…
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Last month, we took a family vacation to Maine. We flew into Portland late at night on a Tuesday, drove to Kennebunk the next day, and returned to Portland on…
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One thing that I know about myself is that I am a sucker for good marketing (I guess who isn’t, right? But call something “seasonal” or “limited edition” and I…
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A few weeks ago, I invited some girlfriends to come over for Saturday breakfast. I’ve been so wrapped up lately in work, and traveling for work, and playing with Baby…
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For six years I’ve been a devotee of the High-Intensity Interval Training classes at FLEXcity Fitness. Jenny Quinn and Trista Parisian are the owners and founders of Flex and constantly…
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I have a lot of history with coffee cake. Growing up, my mom and her girlfriends would sit around the dining room table to gossip and eat an Entenmann’s coffee…
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For 6.5 years, I have been writing a monthly restaurant review. It’s for a weekly local newspaper called Lansing City Pulse, and the feature is called “He Ate/She Ate.” Every…
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Several years ago, Peter Spadafore and I got to know each other through our political extracurricular. Four years ago we rekindled our friendship when I was appointed to fill a…
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Self care. It’s a trendy phrase nowadays, but I boil it down to this- what do I do to make sure that I’m a fully-functioning mom, wife, attorney, friend, human…
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