Author Archive for julie
Julie Power is a writer and editor with experience in both the United States and Australia. After living in the United States for 16 years, she recently returned to live in Sydney with her husband and twin boys (9 years old). Follow @juliepower
IRS says breast is best?
photo credit: Lars Plougmann At-bloody-last! Finally some good news for nursing moms. The IRS has agreed that nursing supplies are tax deductible. But if you feed your kids formula, tough luck … read on. Breast pumps and other lactation supplies are now tax deductible as medical expenses, the Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday, February [...]
Hecession? Nope, women’s share of jobs falls
If there was a he-cession, it may have come and gone, reports Christian Science Monitor in a flash or at least in a month of bad economic data. A new book, “Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better, ” by Maddy Dychtwald, cofounder of Age Wave, says the great [...]
Are you a tiger mom or neutered pushover?
Image via Wikipedia The latest game among my group of friends? Rating each other on a scale of zero, a pushover, to Tiger Mom, a fierce mom like Amy Chua, who sprung to fame via The Wall Street Journal about her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. “Oh yeah, she’s tough. She’s a [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Snow day at home with kids
If only today’s snow day (trying to work at home with kids underfoot) was this peaceful … I made this using the iPad application Doodle Buddy. Fun and free. Read more at Facebook. The kids are making cartoons using the same application.
My kids’ right to live without fear of getting shot
I want my kids to have the right to call you a slime bag or an idiot and not get shot. I want them to be able to attend a political debate as nine-year old Christina Taylor Green (see photo to left) did on Saturday morning in Arizona when she was shot dead along with [...]
Ho ho, Mrs. Claus to the rescue
This fun poem from AskPatty.com made me think how many women I know are currently rescuing their families … buying last-minute gifts, organizing meals and visits to relatives, wrapping presents, managing expectations … To all you superhuman She- Santas, ho ho ho .. and thanks to AskPatty: An AskPatty Christmas Tale… ‘Twas the night before [...]
Slacker’s holiday video
I am a digital woman. I spend my life online, I write about online marketing for work and I do this blog in my spare time so it’s only natural that my holiday and Christmas cards are produced online. This year, I’ve done a holiday video using Animoto. I think the finished product looks great. [...]
The N word in the playground
Today, the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ historic stand against racism, is also the day when my sons started the school day by calling using the N-word. Around 10 a.m., I got a call from the elementary school to say my twin eight year old sons had been heard calling another boy, an African American [...]
Where do you turn when you feel like a bad parent?
Thanks to our virtual friends … What do you do when you and your kids go off the rails? It happens to me as regularly as the trains that run on those cliched rails, but I never seem to get the schedule ahead of time. Usually about every six months something goes badly wrong and [...]
This is your life? Crazy work-obsessed spouse?
Your crazy life with a work-obsessed spouse and loudmouth children could make your family the next Jon and Kate-style reality TV show stars! Read on … I just got this email, which made me laugh. My comments are in italics. Life-changing new docu-series (is that we call reality TV these days?) that empowers real families [...]
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