<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I've always said I'm "New York to the heart but got love for all."
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">After saying that people still say I don't seem like I'm from New York.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">New York is a big state so I guess they don't think I fit the Manhattan stereotype.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Which is true. I don't. Thank goodness because that'd be hella bad.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I also don't fit the Los Angeles or London stereotype.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Yes, some people throw out where they think I'm "really from" based solely on my voice.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And they come up with The Valley or Notting Hill.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Anyway, New Yorkers are supposed to be loud and unapologetic.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And I'm not. I'm guarded.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">So guarded that "pulling teeth" has been used many times.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">It's ironic considering blogs are supposed to be a window into someone's life.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And this blog started as a way to answer all the emails I received asking about my life.    
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I've found myself sharing more on Twitter (@veepveep) more than I do here.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">It's easier for me to share something about myself in person at an event or a lunch than to do it here on my blog. Which doesn't make any sense.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I can tell a room of 200 marketers all about me but the only true insight into my life on this blog is found on my 100 Things About Me list that was written years ago?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I don't know why letting someone reading my blog get an impression of me based on a 100 Things list that isn't a reflection of me now was so comfortable.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But I do know why I chose to water down posts about my children … So I don't receive any more nasty emails than I already do.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I must give kudos to <a href="http://www.dooce.com">all</a> <a href="http://www.nopasanada.org">the</a> <a href="http://www.iambossy.com">bloggers</a> <a href="http://www.theblogess.com">who</a> <a href="http://mom-101.blogspot.com">don't</a> <a href="http://www.mochamomma.com">water</a> <a href="http://www.immoralmatriarch.com">it</a> <a href="http://badladies.blogspot.com/">down</a>, because I appreciate everything you share.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Even when its in its unedited, and probably "Vodka fueled oh no she didn't just go there" glory. Ladies, you are amazing.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Thanks for inspiring me to take the Native New Yorker moxie in my heart and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">realize</span> honestly believe I should no longer fear writing on my blog.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Stick around as I dip my toe in the water. (Not the Hudson people.. I'm not that brave!)</span>