We have been invited to an Oscar party and we need to bring dessert. I am a huge fan of the Oscars and so is my eldest son. And my youngest son is a huge fan of cupcakes, so we blended our passions and made Oscar-best-picture-nominee-themed cupcakes to celebrate the evening. And the nominees are… Avatar (See [...]

We have most of our money in a credit union. I like the idea of it and they have great customer service. But for convenience, I had my little checking account and the kids’ savings accounts at a local bank. It was once a Washington Mutual, and I liked them because they had free checking [...]

Caroline Donahue came over Monday to overhaul my productivity and it was pretty intense. She was in my office (and my kitchen) for about 8 hours, and luckily for me, she’s a doll, or else I’m not sure I could have handled it. But there were no push-ups required and although it made me use muscles [...]

(Nate Berkus would never approve.) And it’s really just a reflection of the crazy amount of work I have to do right now. 3 blogs to generate content for, a new one to launch, 2 more I contribute to, taxes to prep, kids, husband and home life to manage — you get the picture. More [...]

And I got a doozy of one a few weeks ago at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach’s Pacific Waters Spa. I was there as a guest of the spa’s, along with a bunch of other mom bloggers, and I had a perfectly lovely afternoon. Check out the Whrrl story we all made: More check-ins at Hyatt [...]

I have been emailing back and forth with another mom friend, trying to make an audio file work in a blog post. She finally sent me the embed code just now and I reflected on how, in another time, 2 moms might have been sharing a recipe, but now we’re sharing html code. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Digital [...]

Tomorrow night, Frontline, one of the best things about television IMHO, will show Digital Nation, taking a look at the culture of the wired world. I was one of several Mom Bloggers recently invited by the producers of this documentary to view the program and sit down with the director Rachel Dretzin and correspondent Douglas Rushkoff. [...]

Yes, I realize it’s the end of January, but being a month late for something is no reason not to do it at all. I started the year with some resolutions and have had varying degrees of success with them so far, and so I’d like to tell the world because maybe it’ll help get my [...]

I had a meeting downtown in what appeared to be a plain building from the outside, but which turned out to be stunning inside. Then I snagged a couple of my blogging buddies, Elise’s Ramblings and YvonneInLA, and we went out for a lovely lunch at Cafe Pinot, which happened to be participating in Dine [...]

I went to a lovely food and wine event last week as a guest of KCRW where some adorable Aussie chefs showed off their skills with KCRW’s Good Food host (and Angeli Caffe chef) Evan Kleinman. It was fun and the food was delicious. The wine was very good, too. And believe me, I was [...]