Archive for May, 2007

This morning I was catching up on some blog reading and got to this post by IzzyMom: a call to action to ask Scholastic to remove Bratz books from their offerings at school fairs. Her post got me thinking about this whole idea of businesses being “socially responsible.”
I’m still exploring my feelings on this [...]

I get such a kick out of this mommy wars stuff. The war used to be between working and stay-at-home moms, but now it’s apparently between Alpha and Beta moms. And don’t forget the Omega moms.
Mothers get all sorts of crazy about these “labels.” But, you know, I kinda like them.
Here’s the thing: People [...]

Continued from here.
I immersed myself in stay-at-home mom-dom. We had recently moved to a new town and I had no friends, so I joined the local MOMS Club and immediately began taking on responsibilities. I designed our chapter’s web site, did the layout for the monthly newsletter. Soon I was V.P., and the next year, [...]

I enjoyed reading this article which describes the many positive ways homeschoolers are socialized.

This is the first of a series in which I will be revisiting the past 10 years and exploring that all-important question: What do I want to do with the rest of my life?
It was the summer of 1996. I had recently left my job covering IPOs for Bloomberg Financial Markets so I could start [...]