I almost dropped the phone when we got the call last week: we were randomly invited from the PR firm representing Chevy–yes THAT Chevy–on a road trip to a huge Social Media/Interactive conference called South by Southwest, affectionately known to us web-geek-types as SXSW. So, a team of four of us, including Kate Semp who [...]
It was quite a surprise today to be asked by CBS Channel 6 in Richmond to share my views with Greg McQuade on sex ed in schools. To be viewed on television today. No pressure! After reading a recent report in the Washington post from a recently published National Sexuality Education Standards report that spurred the [...]
In the afterglow of unwrapping a mountain of gifts under our tree on Christmas morning, I bounded upstairs to take a shower before the family came over for dinner. I trounced down, late per usual, to a house full of family and my husband standing in the foyer talking to a family member. “Want to [...]
Richmond Rocks is the first book release by Richmondmom.com Publishing! Available now, in it’s second printing and available in paperback, this full-color book is a fun to Richmond’s history and sights for little ones ages 4-8, but we think adults will get a kick out of reading it aloud, too! Another cool thing? Everything about [...]
Some dear friends had been talking up Bikram Yoga, also known as “hot yoga” and it’s miraculous results to me for months, I just never took the time to get to a class. I was resolved to end this gluttonous, food-filled Thanksgiving weekend by doing something healthy for myself, and I have fallen out of [...]
Our nine-year old son has developed a terrible habit of being, well, grumpy. I remember when it first started, thinking “this cannot be hormones already!” and wondering why our typically-perky eldest son seemed so sassy and and sullen all of a sudden. For example, I pick them up each day at the bus stop, after not taking lunch, [...]
Someone jokingly tweeted me yesterday that “It must feel awkward now to have a degree from Penn State.” After I took a deep breath from this sucker-punch, it started to become apparent that one of the most surprising results of the Penn State Sandusky case is the hate that it has caused for a school [...]
You may have read about my first experience as SpiderMan-er-Special Olympics supporter as I rappelled from the SunTrust building downtown with a few of my other brave (or crazy?!) Richmond friends to raise funds for the Special Olympics. If not, you can check out that story here (it was a big weekend!) I’d love your [...]
Kate Hall scares me. Okay, there – I’ve said it! I mean, she leaps over tall buildings, auctions off Richmond’s most handsome eligible bachelors, and catapults through water-slides at Great Wolf Lodge like a 10-year old. She runs miles in the sweltering heat for fun and actually enjoys it, and she Googles herself just to [...]
For any expectant parents out there, disclaimer: please do not continue reading this if you’d like to continue on in your dreamy, nursery-painting, bib-folding, bootie-cooing state of blissful expectation. Your world is about to get rocked. Now before the hate emails start flooding in I’m not proposing we stop having children, for goodness sakes who [...]
