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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Baby Eddie was born smack-dab in the middle of December in 2017, which was the beginning of an absolutely brutal winter. By nature, I’m not an alarmist, and I never…
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Baby Eddie is a mover and a shaker. Never content to sit still, he loves to crawl and roll around, throwing socks and empty water bottles from one end of…