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my end-of-summer resolution 9 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
I have made a resolution to do one simple thing that will, in one stroke, improve both my productivity and my personal life. I am going to start talking on the phone again. My transfer to a chat-fre...
a boy who still needs his mom 16 Jul 2013 | 11:36 pm
Last night my son Connor, who is ten-and-a-half years old, appeared at my bedside to say 1) he had heard a noise and 2) could he sleep in my bed. My husband is out of town, so I had room, so I said ye...
the Listen to Your Mother 2013 videos are live! 11 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
The Listen to Your Mother 2013 videos are LIVE! Here’s my story, “A Lady’s Prerogative to Change Her Mind,” which started as this blog post last fall. I was unbelievably proud of our entire NYC 201...
it was an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny bikini, that she wore for the first time today 28 Jun 2013 | 11:41 pm
Earlier this spring, Gwyneth Paltrow got much flack for posting bikinis for little girls on her you-wish-you-could-be-me website, Goop. While there is a burgeoning online industry dedicated to roundly...
But Mom! I’m…BORED! 15 Jun 2013 | 07:29 am
I flew Jet Blue with the kids this week. My kids are frequent Jet Blue flyers, and usually consider the time spent aboard munching animal crackers and gorging on the Cartoon Network at 30,000 feet at ...
can the end-of-year just end already? 6 Jun 2013 | 06:28 pm
This morning, my friend’s 8-year-old daughter told him that “I wish school would hurry up and end so I can move on with my life.” Preach it, sister. A fair part of me is dreading school’s end next Tue...
what being the alpha dog has taught me (so far) 29 May 2013 | 12:24 am
After four months of dog ownership, I am sure of one thing: getting a dog does not automatically make one a dog person. I give you Exhibit A: Marshmallow. Yeah, she’s cute, whatever. While walking her...
getting one’s mom-uppance 21 May 2013 | 11:14 pm
Our neighbors across the hall recently confessed to me that they had a good laugh one morning after hearing me yell my kids onto the elevator and out the door to school. I’m assuming it sounded someth...
Listen To Your Mother: why you should. and why you should go. 2 May 2013 | 12:22 am
Three years ago, I went to my very first blogging conference- Blissdom. If you read the “Mommy Business Trip” story in the Wall Street Journal last week, you might think that blogging conferences are ...
your son isn’t here right now, Mrs. Torrance 26 Apr 2013 | 03:26 pm
I had our biannual conference with our fourth-grader’s teacher last week. My husband didn’t even come. What was the point of him taking off work to hear once again that our son displays malice toward ...
