All Entries in the "What’s On Your Mind" Category
Sears: Get real
Dear Sears, thank you for the housekeeping tip I received in your latest e-newsletter, Manage My Life, suggesting I spend time lubricating my treadmill’s running deck. That’s very important. Not. If I wanted to lubricate something, I’d probably opt to lubricate something more pressing than my treadmill’s unused running deck. Sears’ Manage Your Life newsletter [...]
Be the Dancing Bear!
Guest blogger Susan K. Finston gives her take on working mom guilt. We try so hard to be the “perfect mom” that we sometimes forget how much others appreciate our beautiful domestic dance, no matter how flawed and how guilty we feel at not doing everything perfectly: A lifetime ago before I was a mother, [...]
Is every woman fair game? It seems so
What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women? That’s the message behind this video by http://www.mediaed.org Show this video to a man and then ask, “How would you like it if perfect strangers looked [...]
What matters most? Women
What matters most? That was the question blogger and marketer Seth Godin put to 70 top thinkers. Paco Underhill, CEO of Envirosell, responded “women.” He wrote: “We live in a world that is owned by men, designed by men and managed by men, and yet we expect women to participate. But did you know … [...]
#Fat Girl Friday on Twitter
This post is for anyone who’s ever said, “I’m fat,” who’d rather grab another bit of cheese and slurp down one extra glass of wine than embark on another low fat, low life, diet. Fat Girl Friday, or #FatGirlFriday on Twitter, is spreading faster than our collective behinds. We asked guest blogger Becca Bernstein why [...]
Is 10 weeks of summer vacation too long?
Do you love the long summer vacation or worry about your kids being out of school so long that their brains will turn to fuzz? Please take our poll: When you are finished, check out some of these articles, including Maria Shriver saying summer vacation is the most stressful time of year.
Bed rest blues…week four
I’m still pregnant, hooray! Amniotic fluid levels according to this week’s ultrasound is in the high-normal range. No signs of infection. I’m IV free, I have “outside privileges” (a.k.a. I can go into the “yard.”) Baby is approximately 2.2 lbs and I am 27 weeks. On Friday, I was told I could go home on [...]
Bed rest blues, week one
As many of you know, my husband and I are expecting a bouncing baby boy in early January. Or, at least that was the plan. On September 13th at 23 weeks pregnant, my water broke. Not a full break. It is more accurate to say that I’m leaking amniotic fluid. The diagnostic term is Preterm [...]
Bloggers, multiskillers, tweeters and teens fail at texting while driving
Guess who got a D for Death in the test for Texting While Driving 101? Experts in Utah tested some expert bloggers and texters ( daresay they were savvy tweeters, too) in a simulator. They found even short tweets or a simple, “I’m nearly there!” put them at risk. It would have been bye bye [...]
Marriage insurance versus poverty ever after?
It’s no secret divorce is bad for a woman’s income. When a couple divorces, the average income of the woman and her dependent children often plunges by 20% or more. On the other side of the coin, the income of her now “unfettered ex,” who had been the family’s primary breadwinner climbs accordingly, The New [...]
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