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Mother’s Day
Signs the Economy Isn’t a Total Basket Case
For quite some time, there was no shortage of indicators pointing to the fact that the economy wasn’t doing so hot—including some odd data about a falloff in men’s underwear sales, a rise in animals being abandoned at pet shelters, and the impressively overqualified status of this year’s census workers. Now, at long last, we’ve got …
Are stay-at-home moms worth more?
Salary.com released its annual Mother’s Day findings on what it thinks moms ought to be paid. (Figure out your own worth on the site’s Mom Calculator.) From its release:
For 2008, Salary.com determined that the time mothers spend performing the 10 most popular “Mom job functions” would equate to an annual cash compensation of $116,805
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Best gifts for Mother’s Day
On Sunday morning, I got:
• to sleep in;
• a dozen red roses;
• a card featuring a drawing of a mama rabbit vacuuming raisins from the carp—hey, those aren’t raisins!
• a message inside the card from my three-year-old featuring noun, verb and accurate punctuation;
• a big box of Godiva truffles.
I’m not sure how it came to …
The meaning of my tattoo
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about life. I am not saying this to sound deep. I am many things, but I am not deep. I say many things, and few of them are deep. I have many thoughts, and most are shallower than a puddle of Kool-Aid in a desert.
I think about life because it is the name of the magazine section that I will be editing for …
Tough choice for moms: less pay vs. less time
In the Cullen household, Mother’s Day is known as Sunday. As in the day Mommy does the laundry, the food-shopping and cooks a big batch of something we eat until we’re sick of and throw out the following Sunday. As in the day Daddy plays a matinee and sometimes a concert. Oh, I bet I’ll get a funny card or two, and my sisters are …
