Mompreneur Musings: The Quest For Balance

I am very much an optimist and can find the bright side when things look bad, but not so much that I lose perspective. In contrast, there are people out there who always think that the glass is half empty.
It comes down to choice. How would you describe this glass?
The milk takes up 50% of [...]

In response to my hypothesis about drinking diet soda and gaining weight, a dietician (who just happens to be a high school classmate who I haven’t heard from in 25 years who contacted me via Facebook recently) let me know that consuming colas in particular, is also associated with increased risk of bone fracture and [...]

Thank you to the 50,000 people who signed up for the Zoe Foods Consumer Advisory
Panel to try the new Zoe’s Crunchy Granola last month. We really appreciate your interest in Zoe Foods and are working hard in getting our new crunchy granola out to you. As we mentioned in our original email, we do have [...]

Zoe’s Bars are hit by a car and the company gains a new customer! Several weeks ago we received a voicemail from a gentleman who explained that he hit a box of Zoe’s Bars that were lying in the middle of the road. (For the full story, see the original blog entry: http://www.zoefoods.com/blog/zoe-bars-hit-by-a-car-in-bellingham-ma/ ). He called again [...]

As I was putting my youngest daughter to bed last night she said to me, “Mommy, you’re not going to go away again?” I asked her what she meant and she explained “Like when you and Daddy went to the wedding and Grammy and Grandpa had to stay with us.”
I explained that although we don’t [...]

Sitting here watching the Olympics with my husband and the commentators were discussing the Americans chances for winning the women’s gymnastics event. They were debating which of the two Americans had the best shot of winning. Then one of them said that the Chinese were there to ruin the Americans’ chances. Since when do competitors [...]

Is it just me? How do people have time to stay involved in virtual communities? Facebook is a good example. No matter how much I read about Facebook or explore the site, I just don’t really get how I’m supposed to really utilize it. Clearly I’m missing something here since I have trouble keeping in [...]

Last Spring I heard Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of 1-800-Got-Junk, speak at an Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) conference. To say that he was inspiring would be an under statement. I can see why Brian was able to turn everyone else’s junk into a $400 million + business and have fun while doing it. I [...]

My husband and I recently went out to dinner with good friends of ours who were visiting from Nebraska. At dinner I discovered that both Betz and I write blogs. She about life in Nebraska and missing Boston, and me about work, family, and a healthy lifestyle.
The funny thing is that Betz and I both [...]

About 20 years ago, one of my good friends, who is a doctor, told me that when you drink diet soda with aspartame (often called NutraSweet), it goes into your body and doesn’t come out. Since I couldn’t just Google “aspartame” on the Internet back then, I decided to just stop drinking the 3-5 cans [...]