by Robin | Feb 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Though I'm not exactly a niche blogger, two of my greatest writerly intentions are to encourage my readers–you!–to notice and treasure the extras in each day's "ordinary", and to cherish each season in your children's lives....
by Robin | Feb 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
I don't think I could have pulled the trigger without encouragement from sweet friends. This was the third blogging conference my Princess Dress had accompanied me to, and she had yet to exit her suffocating dry cleaner's bag. It didn't make...
by Robin | Feb 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
After 4 1/2 years of blogging and attending 4 1/2 blog conferences, it finally occurred to me why bloggers flock to them like Trekkies to a Star Trek convention white on rice: We're among Our People. My non-blogging friends used to give me that "bless her...
by Robin | Feb 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
How would you like to win a darling satin black clutch to carry your "necessaries" at Blissdom's cocktail parties (and appropriate for any special event)? I've got one to give away compliments of Dressbarn. To enter, do any or all of...
by Robin | Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Robin | Jan 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
In Julie & Julia … Meryl Streep delivers an engaging, statuesque, delicious performance in her lead role as Julia Child; her Golden Globe win affirms what we already know (and knocks on Oscar's door) It's a movie, at the end of the day, that...