Author Archives: Jane

Travel plans

I’m flying later today – I hate flying …. but I love getting places quickly.  The key is bringing along distractions, but not so many that I start to look crazy.  I have a few podcasts from Grace at Design*Sponge to catch up on, plus I know I’ll need to learn all about baby Brangelina.  Do I go […]

Keeping up with the Times

Today’s NYTimes has some great features in the House & Garden section – Garrison Keillor’s St. Paul, MN home is featured – and it’s a gorgeous house (well above average). I would love to see his home featured in a glossy magazine – better and bigger pictures would be fun to see since I like his house so […]

I keep buying (and reading)

Let’s face it – I have a serious magazine addiction that stems back to age 12 or so, when I started to believe that Seventeen magazine was speaking to ME.  I had to have my mom drive me to the local drugstore as soon as I felt the new issue was being unwrapped ….. and […]

Magazine closings

Do we finally have enough magazines telling us how to parent?  Cookie magazine launched earlier this year, helping us all to be better upper-income parents.  Now, just weeks after Martha closed her Kids magazine, I learned Tuesday at Gawker that Bundle and Child have also announced they will no longer be newsstand titles.  (Child intends […]

Why another Blog?

Why another blog?  So far you’ve learned “I want to blog” and “It’s hot!”  Haven’t these topics been covered, elsewhere?  Yes – but I don’t intend to recap the weather daily.  I hope to cover a broad range of topics – my inspiration is the blogs that I read every day.  Some make me laugh, like Gawker […]