By: Mary Fran Bontempo I’m beginning to hate October. It used to be one of my favorite months, all crisp air, blue sky and brightly colored leaves. But now the main color I see anymore during October is pink, and it’s starting to drive me a little crazy. In case you’ve been living in a cave, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I don’t know if you’re supposed to capitalize all of the [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo I'm lucky to be a regular columnist for Women's Voices Magazine. It's a great publication that celebrates all things women, with terrific writers from all walks of life. Every month, our wonderful editor, Brenda Krueger Huffman, invites to think about a topic and write about it, if it so moves us. This October, the theme was: Women who influence your life. After thinking about it, I realized that the [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo It’s quite a sad state of affairs. With fall upon us, we gals think about updating our wardrobes. How we look is important to us, and to other women. (Let's face it, our guys couldn't tell you what you wore yesterday, or ever, save your wedding day, when they'd say you wore a white dress, if their lives depended on it.) But we concentrate on things seen. What [...]
FOR NEW NRFPG POSTS, SCROLL DOWN! By: Mary Fran Bontempo It's here! The next book in the Not Ready for Granny Panties series, titled The Woman's Book of Dirty Words, is now available in print and ebook versions. Check out the out this fabulous video below by NRFGP own amazing illustrator, Pat Achilles! (Am I using too many exclamation points?!!! I'm really excited!!!!!!) The Woman's Book of Dirty Words, along with Not Ready [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo CONTEST ALERT! Happy almost Labor Day! This weekend, #notreadyforgrannypanties wants to see how you plan to #relax ! Here, we will be celebrating a summer of weddings, babies, new houses, new jobs, and family and friends. Now that the SECOND #notreadyforgrannypanties Book 'The Woman's Book of Dirty words' is available on #Amazon and #barnesandnoble we want to give YOU a copy! To enter: 1. Follow me @maryfranbontempo on Instagram [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo As I write this, I'm sitting. But it's not genuine sitting, it's work sitting, which is not the same thing. Summer should involve more sitting, as I note in this latest piece for Women's Voices Magazine. Check it out while you sit down and maybe have a glass of wine--another thing summer should have more of! http://www.womensvoicesmagazine.com/2015/08/01/planning-a-spontaneous-summer-of-sitting/
By: Mary Fran Bontempo Remember when fear was fun? Roller coasters, haunted houses, scary movies? As women become the caretakers of everyone, fear always comes to mean something bad is in the works. But fear can be a good thing. Being scared and pushing through that fear can open the door to new adventures and, dare I say it, FUN. Watch below as Mary Fran Bontempo and Jamie Broderick from Network Now tackle [...]
