When your child goes to college, it can feel like a big, and scary step—for both parents and child. Even if your child is totally academically prepared for this next challenge, being away from home and managing their own lives, day in and day out, is a whole different...
This week’s Meet a Mom is helping Mothers’ Day help other moms—a lot of moms. In 2010, Kim Hausman Athan and a few other mothers (including her own!) launched Mothers’ Day Movement, a non-profit organization that benefits women and families worldwide. One hundred...
Just a few years before we launched Westportmoms (well four years to be exact=)) two local moms- Dana Noorily and Julie Mountain- created and launched The Granola Bar, now a regional phenomenon with it’s newest location opening right outside Grand Central...
How old are your kids and how long have you lived in Westport/the area? My daughter, Allison, is 19. She is a graduate of Staples High School. and a sophomore at Georgetown University. My son, Zachary is 17, and a junior at Staples. We first moved to Westport in 1993,...
When people who love to travel have kids and start traveling as a family, resorts that cater to children can be a littleunderwhelming. Twenty-five years ago, Gwenn and Mark Snider found themselves in that position. “We had three littlekids, and loved to travel...
How old are your kids and how long have you lived in Westport? I have lived in Westport for 53 years, and my daughter is now in her 20s! How did you end up where you are now in terms of your job, or whatever passion project it is you might be doing? As mentioned, I...
