Growing Bolder Community

I never thought I'd write these words but...c'mon, follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/runswstilettosI just spent the weekend at the posh and historic and lovely Union League Club in Chicago where the National Federation of Press Women held their annual conference. I was there as a speaker, and as a conference "first-timer," and to have a great time networking and learning.I started off by...

There's a new dog at my house. A baby, really, all of three months old. I'd forgotten, after thirteen years, about how I thought that doing "the puppy thing" ever again would kill me. Lucky is a hoot, though. Impossible to wear out, with his moments of charm, stretches of comic entertainment, and bursts of sheer joyful destruction. And as Paul Harvey would say, here's "the rest of the...

As though working out on land wasn’t tough enough, try doing it while suspended in mid-air! The NBC affiliate in Philadelphia recently did a feature on the “aerial silks” class at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. My yoga-teaching artist daughter, Sarah Muehlbauer, is one of the students. You can watch the video. Sarah is the one in the purple tank top, dangling from two white...

My favorite "spare" cat has embarked on some new frontiers of his own. Since moving in three months ago, he's become the first four-footed critter to check out the fresh dog food in Lucky's bowl...though he also scarfs up leftovers, cat food and senior cat food. The other day he made a dash for the tennis ball that I threw across the living room for...the dog. Meatball got there first. But in the...