Book Review: Cousins Maine Lobster - Hoe One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business I love reading about success stories in business. I find these types of stories motivating and inspiring. The book, Cousins Maine Lobster - How One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business, is all that and more. Jim...
Brave Era Travel Sheet Review
Brave Era Travel Sheet Review How many times have you slept in a hotel room to find that you wish you had your own sheets? I think that every time I go away, but I try really hard not to dwell on it. Recently, Brave Era produced 100% pure mulberry...
#DOVEDermaSeries to the Rescue!
#DOVEDermaSeries to the Rescue! Full disclosure - I love DOVE Beauty Bar. I've been using it for years, ever since I did PR for them in the 1980's when I worked for Ogilvy & Mather PR. It feels like a lifetime ago, yet, I've been loyal to the brand ever...
Product Review: Explore Cuisine
Product Review: Explore Cuisine I grew up in a time of junk food, artificial everything and processed everything. No one thought twice about it. We would buy it. We would eat it and that would be that. But today, everyone seems to be much more health conscience and much more...
Tom’s of Maine Product Review
Tom's of Maine Product Review If something is healthy it tastes bad and if it's not it tastes great, right? Well, I was pleasantly surprised by Tom's of Maine when, at Blogher Health, I was given a package of goodies from the company including fluoride mouthwash, antiperspirant, body wash, and...
Restaurants in and around Merrick: Molto Bene
Restaurants in and around Merrick: Molto Bene This quaint little restaurant on Merrick Road in Merrick was on my bucket list since we moved in to town. I had heard it was a decent Italian Restaurant, so I wanted to see for myself. My husband and I went there on...
Brand Intimacy – A New Paradigm in Marketing Book Review
Brand Intimacy - A New Paradigm in Marketing Book Review Consumers have been intimate with brands since the beginning of time. In the 1920's consumers were obsessed with the Ford automobile. In the 1990's, popular brands included Baby Phat and Delia. There is an intimate relationship between brands and consumers.The...
Restaurants in and around Merrick: Savoy Tavern
Restaurants in and around Merrick: Savoy Tavern Last Saturday night, my friends and I decided to try Savoy Tavern. We had heard that they have a band there on the weekends and that the food was pretty good. I made a reservation on OpenTable and when we arrived at 7...
Restaurant Review: In and Around Merrick – Villa D’Agua
Restaurant Review: In and Around Merrick - Villa D'Agua My staff gave me a $150 gift card to Villa D'Agua on Bellmore Avenue in Bellmore. The restaurant is right on the water in South Bellmore. It's a quaint little restaurant that is nothing much to look at from the outside,...
Galil Sauvignon Blanc Wine Review
Galil Sauvignon Blanc Wine Review After tasting the bottle of Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon and thinking how impressed I was with the taste, the flavors and the color of this fine wine, I thought it would be interesting to see how a white wine would taste. Hence, Galil Sauvignon Blanc! I...