If Only I Were Buying Pencils

A Middle-Aged Woman Laughs at Back to School ShoppingBy:  Mary Fran BontempoEight pocket folders. Clear contact paper. Number two pencils. Copybooks, rulers, protractors, colored pencils, glue sticks, etc., etc., etc.You recognize this list. It’s the dreaded back-to-school supplies shopping list. You, along with countless other wild-eyed mothers, have descended on WalMarts, KMarts, office supply stores and even drug stores, in search of everything itemized on the multiple pieces of paper you clutch in [...]

2018-10-30T09:56:50-04:00September 7th, 2010|1 Comment

I Am Love directed by Luca Guadagnino

I am Love is not a movie to be seen to pass the time, but a work of art, to be taken in and digested at leisure as you would a Picasso painting or a Shakespeare play.If you believe there are movies and there are films, then you'd agree with me that I Am Love is the quintessential example of what a film should be.I Am Love (which sounds sexier if you say [...]

2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00September 3rd, 2010|1 Comment

Grunts & Groans on Work Styles

by Chrysa SmithJust recently, someone passed a comment about my very flexible work schedule. They referred to me as someone who 'doesn't work.' That's interesting. Because while I'm not out the door to a different physical workspace in the early hours of the morning, I am in my office for hours on most days, sending emails, correcting manuscripts, writing, marketing, promoting my self-published book series---all in between one of my most favorite jobs [...]

2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00September 1st, 2010|2 Comments

Hair in All the Wrong Places

A Middle-Aged Woman Laughs (and Cringes) at Wandering HairBy: Mary Fran BontempoMy daughter was staring. “You have a hair on your chin,” she announced.“What?!” I shrieked. “Where?” “Right there,” she said, pointing. “It’s pretty long, too.”“Oh my god! I yelped, frantically slapping at my face.“Go like this,” Laura gestured, wiggling a finger under her own, youthfully hair-free chin, “you’ll feel it.”Sure enough, there it was defiantly poking its way out of the bottom [...]

2018-10-30T09:56:51-04:00August 31st, 2010|2 Comments
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