Usually, when securing talent for the magazine, you have to go through layers upon layers of press people, media relations, then personal assistants before you finally get the green light for a cover. But that wasn't the case with actor Burt Young. The first time I called to pitch a potential cover, the phone was picked up almost immediately. And I recog[...]

I’m not going to lie. I love Laurie Berkner. I can sing all of her songs just as well as (or sometimes better than) my own kids. Laurie is one of those children’s singers who just gets kids. She writes songs that they’ll love and that parents like myself find absolutely adorable, too. So it was an absolute thrill to get to meet Laurie for her cove[...]

On what might have easily been the hottest day of the summer, we went to my old stomping grounds, Queens, NY, to shoot our cover celebrity, Lenore Skenazy. But this wasn't the first time that Lenore and I had connected—and it hadn't gone so well. A couple of years prior, Lenore had interviewed me for an article she was writing for the New York Post. I had[...]