I hate you, Valentine’s Day

I hate hate hate Valentine’s Day.
I don’t mind flowers from my husband, but I prefer them when they are not preordained by convention. I’d rather have a posie of flowers than a store-bought card with his name scribbled below.
But what I can’t abide is the institutionalization of this giant fake love-in among young children.
Today I [...]

Moms fight for better road safety

Add this to your list of New Year’s resolutions that are easier to achieve than losing weight or launching your own business … and better for everyone.
What is it? Try to stop talking, texting and tweeting while driving.
I love to talk on my cell phone, particularly while driving, but I’ve been trying to give it [...]

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 you [...]

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 …
1. Women dominate higher [...]

#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 she [...]

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 Sunday [...]

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 Premature [...]

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 blogger if [...]

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 York Times [...]