If you could choose a superpower, which would you pick? The power to fly? A cloak of invisibility? The ability to be in two places at a single time so that when the kids are sick or daycare is closed you can be both at home with them and at work? I know what I’d...
Who likes being put in a box? I don’t. Nobody puts Baby in a box! OK, the actual movie quote says “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” but I wouldn’t want to be in a box either. Boxed in is perhaps even worse than cornered in. At least you can watch...
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would give us the guidelines to skip the hard stuff and get right to the GREAT story ending? Happily Ever After awaits! So why does it take so long to get there? This isn’t that list. Apologies to my readers who were hoping...
It’s 5 pm and Anne Doepner is leaving work to get home to her two children, ages 7 and 5. She makes no excuses for this. “I firmly believe that if we don’t have something bucking against the culture, you’ll never get women into these roles,” she...
Two years ago, in the depths of what I didn’t recognize then as a dangerous case of burn-out, I had this crazy image. I pictured my busy, exhausted self falling on the sidewalk and cracking open, only to find dozens… hundreds… thousands of words...
