First published on www.StyleSegment.com Call me a hill-billy, but I didn’t know if your kids weren’t listed on a wedding invitation then you couldn’t bring them. My husband Patrick and I had planned our summer vacation around a Philadelphia wedding, which we learned too late was for big kids only. Before abandoning the wedding for lack [...]
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Grace, Glamour and Girl Talk with New Zealand Designer Rebecca Taylor
- first published in Maniac Magazine May 2011 With a romantic, but edgy sensibility Rebecca Taylor has charmed celebrities, boutiques and department stores with her classic, but youthful style. For this journalist she was also a much needed smile during the stress and party scene at New York Fashion Week. I was five months pregnant [...]
Cirque du Soleil and the Evolution of Life in My Womb
Accidental Mama Goes to the Circus by Sarah Lolley My impending doom hit me on the opening night of Cirque du Soleil’s Totem performance, which was also my husband Patrick’s 36th birthday. It was a rainy night that made lakes of puddles and turned the rain into pelting water bombs. As we found our seats, [...]
UNCUT – In Defense of the Foreskin
The last we left my story I had gotten knocked up again, luckily by my husband. It was an accident so I like using the term “knocked up.” It kind of reminds me of backing into someone’s car and causing a dent, but way more life changing. After humorous trips to New Orleans and Miami [...]
Accidental Mom – Part 3
Mamas Gone Wild – First Appeared in the Oct/Nov Issue of Maniac Magazine There are two kinds of accidental moms. The first is the girl that gets pregnant and changes their reckless ways for good, like changing their stripper profession for teaching math. The second are those that secretly wanted to have kids but are not [...]
Accidental Mom – Part 2
A Shotgun Wedding and a Dramatic Entrance By Sarah Lolley The sequel to the first installment of the Accidental Mom starts off with hormonal changes and ends with a dramatic entrance also riddled with hormones. As a fellow friend of mine said to me after hearing I was pregnant, I was about to lose control [...]
The Accidental Mom: Part 1
ADVENTURES IN A LIFE TRANSITIONING FROM PARTY TIME TO POOPY DIAPERS Shortened Version appears in the June/July 2010 issue of Maniac Magazine It was the summer of 2007 and I was participating in Pittsburgh’s 50 Finest Singles fundraising campaign for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I was working for a real estate development company based in [...]
Wear a little Sex and the City
Sex and the City Charms published it the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, May 19, 2010 By Sarah Lolley In time for the release of two summer movies, Dogeared Jewelry & Gifts is releasing lines of jewelry inspired by the original media.This month, the iconic TV series “Sex in the City” gets a necklace charm line. Later [...]
Adventures in Swimwear
When my editor at the Post-Gazette asked me to write an article about swimwear, he asked me to focus on “regular women.” I quickly responded thatthey didn’t exist, and that is what is wrong with swimwear; women are not regular. Either small on top, or big on bottom, or just plain soft all over, women were [...]
Adventures of an Urban Mom in the Woods
If you are like me, you may cringe at the idea of letting your child dig in dirt or romp through poison ivy. You may have screamed, as I did on a recent Saturday morning, at spotting spiders in the toilet at Boyce-Mayview Park while the other parents waited to use the compost restroom. If, [...]
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