As a self-branded cautious optimist, I always loved the promise that seemed to beckon with each turning of a new year… and it always made me a little nervous. In our Horatio Alger-esque way, we treat every New […]

Two years ago this weekend my friend Jennifer Goodman Linn finally succumbed to the sarcoma that robbed her of so much… and yet also became the basis for her vast and enduring legacy as the founder with her […]

I noted it was a gamble to engage my corporate conference producer to help with Hannah’s Bat Mitzvah.  Several few meetings back, it appeared I had in fact rolled the dice poorly in this regard.

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As someone who has always fed on popular culture it’s perhaps not surprising that I wound up with a career in marketing; I’m my own best consumer of the images we media create, even/especially as I should have a […]

While it was not practical to do too many venue visits, based on a combination of 1) budget, and 2) time, in conversations with our planners (and a lot of research on my part, as well as theirs), we booked a […]

Off the little list of venue possibilities I had generated, I held high hopes for one in particular, a venue right in our Upper West Side neighborhood of which I had never been aware until not one, but both our […]

Part of my rationale for going a slightly unconventional route in the professional planning assistance department is that I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist throwing my energies into this as a “Project.” In fact, […]

Off the little list of venue possibilities I had generated, I held high hopes for one in particular, a venue right in our Upper West Side neighborhood of which I had never been aware until not one, but both our […]

Among its many profound effects that I consider often in my professional as well as personal life, social media has become a giant lighting rod for rushes to judgement.  And so when Marissa Mayer, the […]

So you may keep meaning to read the complete works of Tolstoy, but with life such as it is, some weeks you can barely get through a People magazine. Regardless, you still believe deeply in the importance of books […]

ATTENTION five boroughs Executive Moms (present and future): The rap on being a NYC dweller is that great public schooling is not a real option (or at least it can seem like finding a needle in a very bureaucratic […]

Timing is everything. Amazingly, just as Executive Moms has come into being, it seems “working moms” have become (if not for the first time) the “it” topic of the moment. Spurring much of the discussion– Allison […]

Have you ever rationalized a little shopping spree as “doing your part to help the economy?” Think how much better that rationale would be if your shopping was actually helping to build your kids’ college fund. […]

(DON’T FORGET: RSVP NOW, AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE NOV. 7TH BREAKFAST AT FAO… PLUS CHECK OUT HIGHLIGHTS AND PHOTOS FROM OUR FIRST EVENT AT http://www.executivemoms.com)!! Why wait until next week to start […]