As a professional, when I got pregnant I realized for the first time that this playing field we call life isn’t equal after all. It was a nasty lesson to learn – especially when all I wanted to do was be psyched about being a new mom. Instead I found myself having to combat the perception that […] Read more…
March 2013 archive
Why All Working Moms Need God
Let’s be clear that I am writing this post at 9:30 on a Sunday morning and I am totally blowing off church. Yes I am a sinner. A sinner raised by an atheist mother and a father who believes life after death is one long dirt nap. Interestingly enough it was my non-believer father who inspired […] Read more…
Not Crafty? Join the Club!
Holidays send me over the edge. And not because I am known to be shopping for presents on Christmas Eve (truly I work best under pressure) but because as a mother to two young children every holiday requires that I make a sad clown attempt at being crafty. The cute and kitschy are not my forte. Creating an adorable […] Read more…
Breaking Up (With Your Girl Friends) Is Hard To Do
We’ve all had bad breakups. The crying, the eating of ice cream, the refusal to eat because you’re sick to your stomach, the guilt, the “What’s wrong with me?” stage, the grief, and finally the slow crawl towards healing which can be derailed at any moment by a chance encounter with your ex and their […] Read more…
Sequestrapalooza and You
Politics, like most everything else in life, is made to seem way more complicated than it actually is. Mostly because if we just realized our nation’s capital is full of mean eight grade girls and brilliant nerds who still carry grudges against the “Big Man On Campus” we’d get a lot less worked up about the […] Read more…