Do you ever tell your kids that after they go to bed, you eat cake? And tease them that everything fun happens late at night when they’re asleep? Well that’s what Barbara Rucci sometimes tells her three kids who are 11, 9 and 5, when she stays up late and,
How often does a bit of encouragement from a sibling, change the course of your life? At 30 years old and with a two year old, Megan Searfoss was not a runner, but when her sister who lived 4 hours away suggested they run a marathon together – she thought,
Nightmares can be scary at all ages, but when Sarina Galu’s son, Tucker, at age 3, woke up for the fourth night in a row from bad dreams, she needed a solution and her son was looking for security. His blankie had long since disintegrated and was reduced to a
What to do with another snow day and no school? The oldest sister, Kate, says, let’s make cupcakes, the middle sister Charlotte agrees, but Kate points out that they don’t have boxed cake mix. Charlotte says, we can make them from scratch and heads to the internet to get recipes.
From models to moms and more, how did Laureen Vellante go from being a booking agent to photographing entrepreneurs? Working with models like Christie Brinkley, Andie MacDowell and Iman, and photographers like Avedon, Scavullo and Irving Penn. Laureen spent her time on photo shoots and helping models put portfolios together.
Creating a venture that combined her talents, pointed her towards her goals and made her happy is what Jenifer Ross found with her new business W@tercooler. She has developed a coworking space in Tarrytown New York where she offers entrepreneurs, small business owners, and mobile workers another option for a
With a Grandmother who was an avid gardener, Karen Hughan helped plant flowers and vegetables each spring, and this experience planted the seeds of her future career. Karen’s father also loved to garden and as he passed away at a young age, gardening became a way of staying connected to
Looking around the baby play group listening to the other moms talk about people like Kim Kardashian, she realized she was the oldest mom there by about 15 years. That’s when Robin Gorman Newman realized she needed a new play group. She thought there must be other women who have
Having grown up down the road from a farm stand, it only seems natural that she would end up in Community Supported Agriculture, or “CSA” for those in the know. Right out of college, Gail Brussel started working in book publishing in the PR department but with the birth of
She took to organization like a duck to water with her first job in human resources. When Leslie Josel was called in to figure out how employees could be more efficient, she turned to the organization of the internal systems workers were using to complete their tasks. “It was like