Hello sweet mamas! It’s February and it’s our month for fragrances. Last year at this time, I gave you the “all about town” for New York’s best lines of colognes and perfumes for the entire family (see archives, Feb 2004). So this year, I want to talk about aromatherapy! There is nothing quicker that evokes <... >

Hello dear mamas! First I hope your New Year is a prosperous one. By prosperous I mean that you drip with wealth of the heart. I want you to know peace and happiness in your home with your loved ones. These articles are my good wishes for all that and more to come true for <... >

Dear Mamas, Hello sweet girls – how are you? Let’s talk breast shall we? Know this: I want to honor this topic with the importance due it. So, I must give you one of my family stories from our attic. It will shed light on my own personal choices that admittedly color my writing. It <... >

Dear Mamas, I know you spent months preparing yourself and your home for the beautiful homecoming of a new baby. You dreamt of pastels and soft, fuzzy blankets to swaddle your sweet babes. So why do you feel so anxious, so dark? Why are you so flat, when everyone else speaks of joy and coos <... >

“It is important for women to know that PPD is not their fault.” – Sonia Murdock, Co-Founder and Executive Director for the Post Partum Research Center of New York Dear Mamas, I know you spent months preparing yourself and your home for the beautiful homecoming of a new baby. You dreamt of pastels and soft, <... >

Hello everyone! How are you? I’m wonderful, let me tell you why. My visit to the Benjamin Hotel and their Affinia Wellness Spa was scheduled prenatally for September 8. Brodhir Wayland Hoffman, “Brody” had other plans for me. I was to be sleeping in Roosevelt Hospital next to my beautiful new babe. That’s right, Brody <... >

Here we are at the base of the foothill together. The air is turning towards September’s wonderful fall breezes. It’s just 28 days to go until Brody arrives. How are you doing? I for one feel as though I am dragging a 300-pound gorilla along the sidewalk from the end of a chain that is <... >

Hello Mamas. How are you? Surviving? Not too much longer sweet mamas, let’s lean on each other here. This is when I do a lot of stopping other pregnant women in malls, grocery stores, bathrooms, who cares where and I engage, invigorate and throttle empathy from them. I have 59 days to countdown and blastoff <... >

America the Beautiful Hello gorgeous mamas! July is one of my favorite times of year. We Hoffmans open our beach house after the winter tenant leaves and throw down musty sheets, towels and quilts from the attic mmmmmhhh…I love that smell. The boys unpack their beach toys like it’s Christmas. But most importantly, we ready <... >

“The only difference between us and the animals, is our ability to accessorize,” Olympia Dukakis – From the film “Steel Magnolias” Never was there a truer statement in a movie. Now don’t think me trite, there have been far more poetic truths, but this has not one syllable of debate, it is true, true, true, <... >