Survey: Who clips their nails?
Studies show today’s fathers are doing significantly more child care and housework than their fathers did. Here’s my question: Are these dads just folding more laundry, or are they also taking...
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What’s up? Warning: rant ahead. A town in Nebraska, with “enviably low unemployment,” is mulling passing an anti-illegal immigrant statute in the books, according to the Associated Press. The reason?...
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Why Work Sucks and What We Can Do About It
There is an actual book called Why Work Sucks. I learned about it reading Joan Blades’s and Nanette Fondas’s, The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line,...
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Coffee Party Convention Day 2
LOUISVILLE, KY — Before I delve into day two, I have some leftover pics and stories from the previous night. There was a bipartisan panel in support of the Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 6116), which...
View ArticleControlling work/life bleed
Aaaaaaaah, technology! We all use it everyday, couldn’t get through our work or home lives without it. I am not a anti-tech person, I love how phones/computers/etc connect us, give us more...
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How Happy Are You?
Yesterday I had lunch with John de Graaf, a writer and filmmaker who is behind documentaries like the Motherhood Manifesto and Affluenza. He also heads organizations like Take Back Your Time and...
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Live Chat with Ellen Moran!
I am pleased to announce that we are holding a live blog chat here at MotherTalkers today between 9 a.m. PT/ 12 p.m. ET and 10 a.m.PT/1 p.m. ET. We are speaking with Ellen Moran, chief of Staff to...
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Our Trip to Puerto Rico
(From left to right: My brother-in-law Alex, sister-in-law Morgan, mother-in-law Maria and her fiance Ricardo, me, Ari, Eli and Markos in Old San Juan, Puerto.) I just got around to downloading the...
View ArticleKel Kelly – CEO & Mom
For a while now, I’ve wanted to interview women I know or know of who have careers and full family lives. I am fascinated and in awe of women who run their own companies, live their lives honestly,...
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Blogalicious Day 2
Editor’s Note: It is embarrassing how long it’s taken me to publish some happenings from Blogalicious. But there’s been so much in the news lately! -Elisa WASHINGTON, D.C.– Despite the bottle of...
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