Archive for 2010
Suits are dead!!!
Is the working woman’s suit dead? Should it be? What do you think? Jill Mikols Etesse says it is. She gives her views on professional women’s suits and separates. Jill spends her free time tearing apart girlfriends’ closets and making new outfits out of old ones (they pay her with champagne). We pay her with kisses … virtual ones. Add yours below in the comments.
“Keeping abreast” – a breast cancer survival story
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I wanted to share my Aunt’s five-year story of surviving breast cancer, which is chronicled on my cousin’s fun and witty blog, The Patriotic Baker. I’ve broken the excerpts into several posts, which we will be posting over the next week or two to raise awareness of breast [...]
Healthy foods and healthy kids equal sane mom
If my kids eat badly, I feel guilty. And if they eat badly, their behavior deteriorates and I feel to blame. Several nights of fast food, and I’m blaming myself for their failure to get that Rhodes Scholarship 20 years from now. Ridiculous but true. It seems some of you carry the same mountain of [...]
The cycle of infertility … don’t wait to get help
“Mom, did you hold your dead babies?” That’s what one of my sons asked recently when we were talking about why he and his twin brother don’t have other siblings. No, I didn’t hold them. But his question made me wonder whether I should have, especially when it came to a baby I lost at [...]
There Are “Working Moms” and There Are “Moms Working It”
Choosing the right shoes for a working day can make or break a busy day, says guest blogger, Jill Mikols Etesse. Jill came to our attention with her spirited comments about women’s professional clothes when we blogged about women’s clothing retailers, including Ann Taylor and Talbots. Let’s be honest there are “working moms” and then [...]
6 Ways To Network Yourself Back To Work
Networking may be the best way for a mom looking to return to work to find a job in “today’s faceless, virtual world,” says Maribeth Kuzmeski, author of The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life. The trick is taking these encounters to the next level. Many moms [...]
Broccoli pasta you can serve within 15 -20 minutes of getting home from work
From go to yummy in 15 minutes (if water is boiling) I swear you can cook Priscilla’s Pasta, and people will eat and enjoy it, within 20 minutes of walking through the door after work. Warning: Do not tell members of your family who hate anchovies what is in this broccoli and anchovy pasta dish. [...]
How Did You Describe Any Gap In Your Resume?
How did you describe the gap in your resume when you stayed home to look after children? Did you use a term like “domestic engineer” in your resume when you were job hunting? Or did you leave it blank? Read HR exec Kristen Clark’s advice: she left a gap that she later regretted. She’s even [...]
Blogs in the Army of Women
Are you blogging for your breasts today? We are. If you are too, tell us and we’ll link to you in our Honor Roll here: The Army of Women (and some men) includes these brave bloggers: Serendipity Cottage, a very moving account of the blogger’s own fight with breast cancer. Read it and weep with [...]
Blog for your breasts: Join the Army of Women
Join the Army? Not that army, but the Army of Women to volunteer to participate in cancer research. * Psst: Add your blog to the list of blogs that have joined the Army here. Today is Blog for our Breasts day. And at MomstoWork, we’re blogging to keep our breasts, and our lives, and those [...]
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