August 2011

When Outright Discrimination Gets Mistaken as a Quest for Work Life Balance: Or How the Judge Got it Wrong!

I’ve been quietly steaming over last week’s decision by Judge Preska to dismiss the Bloomberg women’s class action, anchoring her decision it seems, on former GE CEO Jack Welch’s view that, “There is no such thing as work life balance. There are choices, and you make them, and they have consequences”. On one level, absolutely […]

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We Took Our Kids to Disneyland and Then I Had a Melt-Down

A long summer. On the road. 7,785 miles to be precise. Yes, we drove from the East Coast of America all the way to the West Coast and back this summer with four children under 9. Yes, we are crazy. Mostly business for the grown-ups. A handful of days R&R, but too few to remember. […]

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In My Own Skin: Women, Bodies and Beauty

Blogger Stephanie Nielson and her husband Christian crashed in the Utah desert in a small aircraft in 2008. Both were badly burned, Stephanie sustained injuries to 80% of her body and to date has endured innumberable surgeries in her healing journey. She and fellow bloggers held a panel discussion on Saturday at BlogHer, a gathering […]

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When You Wake Up A Mother…

You Wake Up the World Last week ten bloggers traveled with Bono’s ONE.org to Kenya, to experience for themselves the reality of mothering in Africa. How much reality can you experience when you are a middle class, educated, American? When Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com went to Bangladesh last month with Christy Turlington’s “Every Mother Counts” […]

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