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Name: Nancy Rabinowitz
Email: editor@travelingmom.com
Site: http://www.travelingmom.com
About: Nancy Rabinowitz Friedman is a married mother of eight year old boy/girl twins living in NYC. She is a third generation Manhattanite who loves to travel -- as long as she knows she'll eventually make it back to the greatest city in the world.
An award-winning television writer, Nancy spent nearly 20 years as a freelancer working for just about every cable station based in New York: Lifetime, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, A&E, Nickelodeon -- just to name a few. Her humor essays on motherhood have been syndicated in the online versions of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The Charlotte Observer, and the Fresno Bee, among others. In print,her work has appeared in the multiple award-winning Brain, Child magazine, in the anthologies The Knitters Gift (Avalon Press 2005) and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater (Seal Press 2007). Nancy is a compulsive knitter, and avid cook, and a really bad athlete.See Authors Posts (42) on May 16, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
If you ever read my Saturday posts, you know that I am a CITY GIRL. Notice the capital letters? Not a mistake. I am a city person. I’ve lived here for my entire adult life (except for the two years I lived in another major world city, Paris) and as my friend David Rakoff says if I want greenery I’ll “order the Spinach Salad.”
But this summer, in the interest of saving money and appeasing my kids, my husband is trying to get me to go camping.
Tents? Bugs? No toilets? No thank you. Or the alternative: RV’s, lawn chairs, six packs. No thanks again. I’m all for loving nature — just during daylight hours.
My husband said “vacation” and the first thing I thought was “make-up kit.” Because last week I got the greatest little freebie from my
Role Mommy created Moms Night Out event. A bunch of real deal make-up brushes from
Beauty Strokes, and a cute as a button-nose (which I will never have because mine is decidedly ethnic) – all-in-one make-up kit by
e.l.f. studio. I’m imagining myself swiping my professional quality Beauty Strokes brushes across my fabulous new portable make-up kit, making myself gorgeous (it’s a fantasy, ok? stay with me.) and then he says camping vacation. For a week.
Huh? I want to go camping about as much as I want a dog. (did I mention we’re getting a dog?) I want to go camping about as much as I want my son to skip camp all summer to hang out with me. (working on it.) I want to go camping…well, not very much.
But I think, like any Mom, I’m going to give in and do what the kids want…or at least what they think they want. After all, night time nature noises are scary when you’re used to the dulcet tones of sirens and honking horns. And actual darkness? I don’t think my kids know what that is. The city is never truly dark.
So I’ll go camping. But I’m making sure that we’re close to a hotel just in case. And I’m bringing the Beauty Strokes — cause if we do end up in a hotel, I’m sure not walking around looking like I just went camping!
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If you ever read my Saturday posts, you know that I am a CITY GIRL. Notice the capital letters? Not a mistake. I am a city person. I’ve lived here for my entire adult life (except for the two years I lived in another major world city, Paris) and as my friend David Rakoff says if I want greenery I’ll “order the Spinach Salad.”
But this summer, in the interest of saving money and appeasing my kids, my husband is trying to get me to go camping.
Tents? Bugs? No toilets? No thank you. Or the alternative: RV’s, lawn chairs, six packs. No thanks again. I’m all for loving nature — just during daylight hours.
My husband said “vacation” and the first thing I thought was “make-up kit.” Because last week I got the greatest little freebie from my Role Mommy created Moms Night Out event. A bunch of real deal make-up brushes from Beauty Strokes, and a cute as a button-nose (which I will never have because mine is decidedly ethnic) – all-in-one make-up kit by e.l.f. studio. I’m imagining myself swiping my professional quality Beauty Strokes brushes across my fabulous new portable make-up kit, making myself gorgeous (it’s a fantasy, ok? stay with me.) and then he says camping vacation. For a week.
Huh? I want to go camping about as much as I want a dog. (did I mention we’re getting a dog?) I want to go camping about as much as I want my son to skip camp all summer to hang out with me. (working on it.) I want to go camping…well, not very much.
But I think, like any Mom, I’m going to give in and do what the kids want…or at least what they think they want. After all, night time nature noises are scary when you’re used to the dulcet tones of sirens and honking horns. And actual darkness? I don’t think my kids know what that is. The city is never truly dark.
So I’ll go camping. But I’m making sure that we’re close to a hotel just in case. And I’m bringing the Beauty Strokes — cause if we do end up in a hotel, I’m sure not walking around looking like I just went camping!
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