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Category Archives: Live Events
The New Segil Urban Farm Fellow – Training Camp staff in Urban Farming, Beekeeping and More
Every year we endow a young adult to become a Segil Urban Farm Fellow at the Shalom Institute Children’s camp in Malibu. My husband Clive trains them with his deep knowledge of farming in an urban environment ( although you … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Goats, Little farm products, Live Events, Philanthropy, Women's Topics
Tagged Bible, charity, Chesed, doing good, Empowering Women, Fellowship, Judaism, Philanthropy, Talmud, Torah, Tzedakah, urban farming
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Passover – an important holiday with family and friends – how blessed we are!
We were blessed this year to have a full house – family mainly with a few dear friends. I took special care with the table – since our children may well take on the seder responsibilities in years to come … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fish, Fruit, Live Events, Prayers and Religion, Raising Children
Tagged Cooking for family, cooking with kids, family, Grandma, Passover, Pesach, praying, Reading, religion, Sharing with children, stories
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The Larraine Segil Scholars Quarterly Dinner
The LSS group met for dinner at The Little Farm – Each of these remarkable women impress me more every time we get together. And what gives me tremendous joy is that they have formed such a bonded group – … Continue reading
A recent brunch for Committee of 200 Scholars at The Little Farm
The event was the visit of Israel C200 Scholar Sarai Duek to The Little Farm – and our Los Angeles based C200 Scholars rallied around her. C200 member Renee Pepys Lowe joined me as we celebrated these amazing young women. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Dogs, Little farm products, Live Events, Philanthropy, Women's Topics
Tagged Committee of 200, scholars, women in stem, women of ambition
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Celebrations with good friends!
Good friends and a fun weekend! Our dear friend Laura’s daughter Lauren got married to the love of her life this last weekend and four good friends ( along with 360 others!) flew in to be with them! What fun … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Live Events, Prayers and Religion, Raising Children
Tagged Celebrations, family, friendship, hope, love, marriage, women friends
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So wonderful to give back – here is our Larraine Segil Scholars Family Holiday Party – parents, children and siblings of many of our 13 scholars joined us
We are so blessed to have these outstanding young women in our lives – and here they joined together for a holiday party at The Little Farm – it was such fun! Our son James and daughter in law Donne … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Family, Little farm products, Live Events, Philanthropy, Raising Children, Women's Topics
Tagged bouncy, cooking with kids, entertaining, family, Friends, giving back, grandchildren, grandkids, holiday party, Larraine Segil Scholars, Little farm, Mentoring women, paying it forward, Philanthropy, swimming
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The Sister Act – embarrassing but great fun – for my grand niece Natasha and her mommy Jacqueline – how we ever agreed to do this I will never know….
My sister and I agreed to do a little dance and act for Natasha ( her granddaughter and my grand niece) – and here it is. It was a big celebration – we are at the age that embarrassment is … Continue reading
A recent board retreat at our Little Farm – of course all board members left with goody bags!
Recently we held a board retreat at our Little Farm for a board on which I serve. It was productive and fun too! I made sure that all board members left with goody bags filled with cheese, jams, papaya and … Continue reading
Philanthropy Texas Style – The Ann Richards High School in Austin and The Committee of 200 Women CEO’s group
A few weeks ago I was privileged to join fellow women CEO’s from our group The Committee of 200 ( I was past Chair of the C200 Foundation and Past Vice Chair of the Governing Board) at Intel in Austin … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Entrepreneurship, Family, Live Events, Philanthropy, Raising Children, Women's Topics
Tagged all girls school, eleventh grade girls, high school, Intel, Larraine Segil, Latina Women, paying it forward, Philanthropy, President of Intel, Renee James, STEM, Texas, The Ann Richards School in Austin Texas, The Committee of 200, values
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So proud of our son James who became a National Finalist for Technology for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014
Just a few weeks ago our son James, as a regional winner for the Greater Los Angeles area for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for Technology, participated in the national event – and became one of FOUR NATIONAL … Continue reading
Pumpkin Bread from The Little Farm – so delicious I sold it at Williams Sonoma!
I had such an exciting invitation! To present my artisanal cheeses and jams and breads ( pumpkin, banana, persimmon and zucchini) at Williams Sonoma and sell them there! What a thrill! So I prepared for months – literally – preparing … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Little farm products, Live Events, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks
Tagged cooking with kids, desserts, Pumpkin bread, recipes, snacks
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Recently for National Association of Corporate Directors I spoke at their Master Class for Directors – great fun!
NACD – the national association of corporate directors – gives education and peer to peer exchanges for directors from around the world who serve on company boards public and private alike. I was proud to speak at a recent Master … Continue reading
Mentoring MBA Candidates – one of my passion’s is paying it forward to young women and men encouraging them that a business career is GOOD!
For the past 21 years I have mentored young women and men at UCLA Anderson School of Management. It is a continuing pleasure and honor to meet these amazing young people who come from all over the world to participate … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Live Events
Tagged Foreign Students, MBA, mentoring, UCLA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Hans Rosling – have you heard of him? Take a look at this video in which he animates data – looking at the world over 200 years
Hans Rosling is a physician and scientist – and will change your world view in this video named: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four > Hans Rosling trained in statistics and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Live Events, Philanthropy, Social media
Tagged Changing the world, Hans Rosling, TED
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Great 5 days in Chicago for the Committee of 200 Annual Conference – I am incoming Chair of the Foundation- what an honor!
What is the Committee of 200? It is the leading Women CEO’s Group in the World. I have been a member for over a decade and am proud to be the incoming Chair of the C200 Foundation and Vice Chair … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Live Events
Tagged Business, Pay it forward, scholarships, success shared, women CEO's, Women's leadership in business
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Alice in Wonderland – Wonderful Afternoon with the Grandkids
Just saw ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE BALLET – with the National Ballet of Canada – – with our older grandsons, Jack and Jonah. They sat still and focused for 3 hours. Amazing. What a fabulous production! Last act was a bit long … Continue reading
Barbara Streisand and Il Volo Italian Singing Sensations will do a LIVE CONCERT November 9 2012 in LA!
Do you remember growing up with Barbra Streisand’s music? I recall watching her early movie clips – her auditions, that STRONG NY Accent – and the incredible emotional voice of an angel that came from her – and always seemed … Continue reading
Sam the broken robot made his debut at the ZIMMER childrens museum – see his video !
Sam was so nervous. Truly. But then he met all the great kids who were visiting and playing at the Zimmer Museum and he got dressed in front of them so that they were not scared of him – and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Live Events, Raising Children, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged childrens museum, family fun, grandma music, kid songs, kid stories, Robot, stories for families
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Patience is a Virtue – An Elephant Teaches a Lesson in Patience to Mankind – Feb 2012 South Africa
On Thursday February 19th, a group of folks in a white car, decided that an Elephant was walking WAYYYYYY too slowly in the game reserve in South Africa. Of course the folks in the car forgot that the Game Reserve … Continue reading
Music Mondays – Sam, The Broken Robot Says – Dance every day! He will be appearing at the Zimmer Museum Los Angeles at 11am on TUESDAY April 24th
Sam, The Broken Robot, is doing his FIRST live appearance at the Zimmer Children’s Museum in Los Angeles – LA’s ONLY children’s museum – on April 24th at 11am-11.30am for a special show celebrating The Week of The Young Child. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Live Events, Philanthropy
Tagged charity, children songs, childrens museums, childrens music, Grandma, kid songs, kids stories, Los Angeles, Music for kids
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