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14Oct

Review: M.O.M (Mom Operating Manual)

I was sent a copy of a new book called M.O.M. last week. I took a look at the cover with the image of superwoman in a box being passed from one child to another and decided that it was reading material for my 6 year-old son and I. So we sat down on the floor and started to read. Very quickly, I realized this was actually a book for me, not him. On page 3, when I read that moms are the "the most advanced human models on the planet," I thought, "hmmm....kid's book? I kind of got the idea on page 6 when the book started talking about signs of wear and Read More

14Oct

NYC with Kids: Halloween Hoorah at the NYC Botanical Gardens

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We love the NYC Botanical Gardens in the Bronx at all times of year. My kids adore the train show during the winter; I love the orchid show during the summer. It is a day trip that we all cherish, and it happens to be just 20 minutes from home. So, on Columbus Day, when I found myself with a day alone with the kids, I closed my laptop and decided to spend the day, which happened to be beautiful, outside, in the fresh air, at the Botanical Gardens. Little did I know, but the Everett Children's Adventure Garden was celebrating Halloween in a very Read More

05Sep

Review: Sarah’s Key, the Film

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One of the first posts I wrote on this blog was about the book, Sarah's Key by Tatania de Rosnay. I described it as "a very sad, haunting book, whose images and impressions will linger with you long after you’ve set the book down. De Rosnay is a brilliant story teller, and she certainly had an important story to tell." There was so much about the book that I appreciated, particularly that De Rosnay was able to bring an important story to the mainstream public. Even I had never heard of the Vélodrome d’Hiver round-up, when thousands of Jews were Read More

17Aug

Review: The Digital Mom Handbook and What Being One Means to Me

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I just finished reading The Digital Mom Handbook by Audrey McClelland and Colleen Padilla, both of whom I have met through the blogosphere. I have to admit, I read it rather quickly but only because I was so intrigued. I was curious what these two mompreneurs had to say about making a living off blogging. On the back of the book, it says that they've "literally skyped, blogged, vlogged, tweeted and Facebooke their way to the top" and indeed, they have. I also wanted to read their words of wisdom about balance, something I'm constantly striving for as Read More

29Jul

Summer Travel Read: Those Who Saved Us

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Do you ever buy a book that appeals to you immensely but sits inside a drawer of your night table for months until you pull it out, remembering how wonderful the back copy and cover looked in the book store when you bought it? I suppose it was a year ago that I picked up Those Who Saved Us by Jenna Blum. Maybe not quite so long, but it bothered me for a long time that I wasn't reading it. I knew in my heart it was a book that would hold meaning for me on so many levels. Like the author, I helped interview Holocaust survivors with the Shoah Read More

24Jul

Summer Travel Read: Visit from the Goon Squad

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I always take several novels when we go on holiday. It used to be impossible to get much reading done, but now that the kids are slightly older, it's getting easier. One of the novels I took on our recent trip was A Visit from the Goon Squad, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, by Jennifer Egan. My book club actually chose it for our next meeting in September (August is a vacation month for most people), but it was pure coincidence that they chose it as I was already midway through the book when they made the selection. As much as I enjoyed the book, I'm Read More

23Jul

FREE NYC: B&N and Books for Kids Storytime Fitness Event

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How can you combine reading, advocacy, kids and fun? The Culture Mom is about giving back, and this is a perfect example, especially when your kids are involved., and this event is a terrific example. Barnes and Noble and Book for Kids, a non-profit organization that promotes literacy among children, with a special emphasis on low-income and at-risk preschool-aged kids, would like to invite you to attend A Storytime Fitness Event, a fun-filled day of readings, fitness, and games at Barnes and Noble on the Upper East Side, TOMORROW on Sunday, July 24th, Read More

22Jul

Bella’s Chinese New Year: A Cultural Literary Experience for Your Child

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When my virtual friend, Stacey Zolt Hara, asked me to review her new children's book, I was honored. Stacey is one of my favorite tweeters, as she's always tweeting about travel, something she clearly lives for and loves as much as I do. She is constantly retweeting my articles as we clearly have a lot in common, particularly the fact that we are moms with a zest for life who want to show our kids the world and, in turn, we see it through their own eyes. Her book is called, Bella's Chinese New Year, and I suspect it is based on the real life Bella, Read More

28Jun

Travel Guides for Tweens

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If you read my blog regularly, you'll know that I have a rather larger than life interest in travel, particularly traveling with my kids. We took our daughter overseas for the first time when she was just half a year old and have been encouraging both of our kids to pursue and love travel as much as we both do. When we travel, my kids keep travel journals and are totally on top of where they want to go and what they want to do. I've often wondered, what if they had a travel guide of their own? After all, they can read now. They can take notes. Read More

12May

Strokes of Brilliance in Tina Fey’s “Bossypants”

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I enjoyed every word of Tina Fey's new tell-all called "Bossypants." I actually call it a tell-all in gest. She doesn't really rat on anyone in show business. She's kind of gracious and scathing at the same time. As someone yet to make my own mark in the world, I was really impressed with her story. How she joined the cast of SNL at a very young age, after having been out in the world on her own for a very short time. How she has always followed her heart, having had a love for theater and acting in high school and never left it behind. The book Read More