During Sunday afternoon’s precious double nap, I sat at my desk, wrangling with WordPress, trying to format Katy’s guest post to have it ready to publish on Monday morning. My Internet connection was creeping its way along at speeds I haven’t seen since the early days of dial-up. I felt frustrated. I felt angry. I [...]
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A recent article in the New York Times captured my attention, not only for its subject matter, but also for the comments that it drew. In “How to Speak Nanny”, Hilary Stout explored the uneasy relationships that exist between many working mothers and the women they hire to care for their children. According to Stout: [...]
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On Friday, Big Little Wolf posted a passionate and provocative piece about the value – both monetary and metaphysical – of parenting. Both the post and a comment by my buddy Jane – about an article she had read attaching a dollar value to the job a mother does – buzzed around my brain for [...]
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I didn’t post on Saturday. Wait. You mean that fact didn’t rock your world? It sort of rocked mine. Since I started blogging on November 2, I had posted every day – weekends, holidays, while on vacation – until Saturday. At first, I posted daily in order to get myself in the habit of daily [...]
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Sorting through piles of past-their-prime periodicals, I happened upon a back issue of the Teach for America alumni magazine, One Day. Since finishing my stint with Teach for America ten years ago and putting my teaching career on hold three years ago, I haven’t given as much thought to issues of education policy as I [...]
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At my last teaching job, I was also the coach of the varsity girls’ basketball team. I hated every minute of it. I hated the time it took away from my teaching and from Husband. I hated the unreasonable expectations placed on me and my players by their parents. But most of all I hated [...]
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Yesterday morning I opened the utensil drawer in our kitchen and a shiver went down my spine. Whisk intertwined with spatula. Cookie cutter collided with slotted spoon. A cacophony of kitchenware. A mess. I extracted the measuring spoon I needed and then closed the drawer quickly, turning my back on the clutter and resolving to [...]
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Want an example of a working mom successfully compromising to make her marriage work? Then check out Jodi Kantor’s long portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama in yesterday’s New York Times magazine section. What is so refreshing about this article – or really, what’s refreshing about Michelle Obama in general – is how open it [...]
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