Author: Jill Berry

Seizing family time one dinner...game night...movie at a time.

Exhausted

It’s 2:07 a.m. and I’m still up. Why??? I worked all night, but really just returned e-mails, searched for information on trains to BlogHer, and tweeted for the #Energizer BlogHer ChargeHER and #dressbarn4blogher. Oh, and I posted to MomSpark. But,…

Reunions Are Rejuvenating

Yesterday afternoon I stood in the sweltering heat at a reunion. It wasn’t a high school reunion or a college reunion. Instead it was a reunion of my old office workers. For 4 hours, I chatted to old coworkers, perused…

How Did Our Mothers Do It?

If this post was a sponsored post, it would be sponsored by a company that manufactures megaphones or a store that sells earphones. Seriously, folks this has been the summer of kids yelling, mom yelling, dad yelling, and the fish…

My Ancestors

I applied to be one of the bloggers who would get the chance to tour Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on the Thursday of BlogHer (August 5) as part of the Liberty Mutual Responsibility Project. I don’t think…

Alcohol Abuse in Teens

It chills me to the very core to think about what goes on in high school. Several months ago, I received an e-mail about a drug sweep at a local high school. The e-mail from the school administration was chilling…