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 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 Shauna MacKenzie wants you to start your day off right. The founder of Best Kept Self, Shauna gifts her followers with her Monday Morning Pep Talk, available through the Best Kept Self website. It's always a positive, upbeat way to start the week, and I've become an avid viewer. Finally, someone gets that at least for a little while every day, it should be about ME! And you, of [...]
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 [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Megan, me, and Laura at Megan's bridal shower It's wedding week. This weekend, my youngest daughter, Megan, will marry her fiance, Jimmy, and life will change. Yes, it's what is supposed to happen, but that doesn't mean I'm ready. In fact, I'm pretty sure [...]
