Author Archive for Issa M. Mas
Receiving her first writing award at the age of seven from Mayor Edward Koch as a city-wide winner of a poetry contest, Issa currently writes a family events column for Examiner.com, blogs at Single Mama NYC, writes children's books, and is the founder of Your Single Parenting, a parenting resource website inclusive of single parents everywhere.
Central Park Zoo: Little Zoo, Big Fun
By now you’re all pretty familiar with my love of Central Park. It really is a happy medium for city-loving tree-huggers like me. Just the other day, a friend and I decided to take our little ones to the Central Park Zoo and had a truly wonderful time. You would be surprised at all there [...]
Tai Chi in New York City
Have you ever walked through a park early in the morning and seen a group of people in a meditative state performing slow, beautifully graceful movements in unison? If you have, then what you were witnessing was the ancient Chinese martial arts form, Tai Chi Chuan, or Tai Chi for short. There are Tai Chi [...]
Visit New York City Movie Location Sites
For as long as they have been making movies, New York City has been the place to shoot them. Many of the locations of key scenes in movies filmed on the streets of New York City can be visited today, and here is just a very small listing of several to choose from: Stand over [...]
Professional Photographer – Jade Albert
If you are looking for the best possible photographer for your family portrait, I have just the person for you. Jade Albert is the leading commercial children’s photographer and has several child celebrity portraits in her portfolio. She also has a book she collaborated on with Cindy Crawford, and has directed a national television commercial [...]
NYC Thrift Shops Offer More Than You Might Expect
Growing up a born and bred New York City fashionista, I never went shopping at Thrift Stores. Just the thought of it would make my lip curl up self-righteously with the thought, “I don’t need to wear someone else’s clothes. Gross!” Here’s the thing though: some of these thrift shops have fabulous clothes in there [...]
Treat Yourself Right: Treat Yourself To Personal Training
I have been putting fitness off for tomorrow since my son was born. He just turned two in September. Clearly, I can no longer use my toddler as an excuse for my unfit, overweight body, and odds are your excuses are getting pretty thin too (unlike our waistlines!). Nobody wants to pay for a gym [...]
Central Park: A Touch of Nature In The Big City
As a born and bred Manhattanite, I get a lot of pitiful looks from people who grew up in rural and suburban places. They ask me if I didn’t feel deprived of nature having grown up in this concrete jungle of mine, and always say, “No way!” While Central Park isn’t exactly Yosemite National Park, [...]
NYC Halloween Fun For You And The Kids
Before I was a mommy, I shamelessly used my Godchildren to live vicariously through during the holidays. I’d lie and say I was just excited for the children, but deep down inside I was happy that I got to get dressed up in a Halloween costume, or that I was walking over to the Christmas Tree [...]
Sex and the City Tour
On Location Tours offers several different kinds of New York City tours, but the Sex and the City tour called to me the loudest. My friends and I are total Sex and the City junkies; we own the fuzzy pink-covered Sex and the City complete series DVDs, the movie, and will be purchasing our tickets [...]
Fabulous NYC Locations for a Girl’s (Mom’s) Night Out
As a single mom, I don’t get out much. Well, let me restate that. As a single mom, I don’t get out much to grown-up events. I have an extremely full social life, except that it mostly revolves around kiddie concerts, toddler play dates and trips to the playground at the end of my block. [...]
