By: Mary Fran Bontempo I first wrote this column last year, but it still rings true. If you doubt, do check out the video of little Elsa transforming into sexy, vampy Elsa. Those Disney guys clearly get bored with mice and animals. In a Halloween column, mom of young kids, Katy, who writes at her site "Experienced Bad Mom," offered some cute tips as to how to greet the coming onslaught of Trick [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo This column first appeared last August in Women's Voices Magazine. After recently marrying off two children, helping both move into new houses and helping another daughter move back from Florida, nothing is pretty much all I want to do right now. Read on for more.... So, I belong to this women’s networking group that is full of wonderful women whom I love. They’re smart, accomplished and ambitious. Which is [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo Well, it's that time of year again. Time for women to indulge in the annual ritual of self-loathing known as bathing suit shopping. Bathing suit shopping ranks right up with a woman's favorite things to do--along with the annual visit to the gynecologist and a mammogram. We gear up for it mentally, grit our teeth and just do it, minus the glory of a Nike commercial, choking back the [...]
