Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Goodlifefamilymag.com Who doesn’t love a celebration? But make no mistake – a celebration is most rewarding after plenty of hard work and determination; and the tougher the task at hand, the sweeter the success. Now, as we toast to our 10th anniversary, the GLF team…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | Editor-in-Chief The Little Red Kitchen Bake Shop has been a Brooklyn staple since 2014, when native New Yorker Susan Palmer brought her love of baking (and her two straight wins at the Brooklyn Cookie Takedown) to a hungry public throughout New York City. She now…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, Good Life Family I write to educate and inform. I am a publisher and a journalist, and I am proud of it. It gives me a great sense of purpose to bring news, knowledge and enrichment to readers on a variety of topics. The ability…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon | goodlifefamilymag.com As a Jewish mom, raising my children in a predominately non-Jewish world has had its share of challenges. Our history of persecution is well documented. Conversations about the Holocaust and injustices of every kind saturate our household. I raised my children (now young adults) to be upstanders…
By Alicia Wanek | Contributor It is truly a time that is “unprecedented,” a word we’ve all heard so often it will forever be associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. There is so much that feels like a broken record in our daily experience—we are tired of being stuck at…
By Sheryl Pidgeon | Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Like you, I am struggling to comprehend the enormity of the Coronavirus pandemic. I keep using the word “surreal” to describe my feelings. But it is all too real. While we as adults are attempting to wrap our arms around our continued plight,…
by Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon “Excitement is a great and necessary thing; without it life wouldn’t be complete. But happiness – real happiness – is something entirely different, at once calmer and more rewarding.” So says Harvard-trained Ph.D. and life coach, Martha Beck. “True joy,” she states, “lacks the wild ups…