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Busy Doing Nothing

Posted in Dogs, Family, Laughs, Neurosis, Parenting, Rants, Working Mom, pets, tagged , , , on April 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

At the end of every day, I feel like I have done nothing. Oh I’ve been busy all right. But doing what? So one day last week, I decided to keep track of my day — how could I have been so busy during all those hours when the kids were at school and have [...]

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My GlaMOMous Life

Posted in Laughs, Parenting, Working Mom, tagged , , , on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »

True, I’m a Mom.  And true, unless you’re Julia Roberts or Gwyneth Paltrow there ain’t a whole lot that’s glamorous about it.  But I do have my GlaMOMous moments. Here are some recent ones. 1. Last Saturday night, hubby and I went out to dinner with (child free) friends.  The time of the reservation? 9:45.  [...]

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23andMe…and me

Posted in 23andMe, Genetics, Working Mom on January 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This past Sunday in the New York Times Magazine, a guy with a tremendous head of hair wrote about how, in having his genomes sequenced, he found out that genetically speaking, he should be bald. (OK, so Steven Pinker wrote about a lot more than that…but did you see that head of hair!!?) This morning, [...]

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My First Working Mom Dilemma

Posted in Family, Kids, Parenting, Working Mom, Writing, tagged , on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A few years ago, when my twins were three or four years old, I left my daughter home with the Nanny while I went to work.  My Wee One (WO) had a cold, so part way through my day, I called to see how she was. Me: Hi baby-girl! How are you? Wee One: I’m [...]

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Mom for President!

Posted in Humor, Kids, Laughs, Parenting, Politics, Working Mom, tagged , , on September 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

With the conventions over, and Sarah Palin’s nasty speech somehow energizing the right, it’s starting to seem as if the Republicans are going to win. Something must be done.   So I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring.  I’m running on the MOM platform.  And it’s not an acronym.  I’m running as a Mom, [...]

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The Party's Over

Posted in Working Mom, Writing, tagged , on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, I took a job. A real, honest to goodness, I will get a paycheck job. I didn’t do this lightly. I had slowed down working a lot about three years ago, then stopped completely one year ago, and I was starting to lose my mind. Full-time mommy-hood was killing me. Too much stress. Too [...]

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