How much is a mom worth? The answer, of course, is — everybody altogether now — “priceless.” While that’s the safest …
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Life as a full-time mom in Japan
I need a decoder ring.
I have enrolled Mika, my four-year-old, in a Japanese kindergarten for the remainder of the month as I stay in the country to sort out my parents’ affairs. It is a fiendishly difficult business, this settling of an estate, in a land that never saw a government-required form it didn’t like. Also it would help if I …
A morning in the head of a working mom
12:01 a.m.: Lie awake fretting over childcare and work. Baby sitter has selfishly selected friend’s funeral over feeding my child chicken cutlets. Weekly newsmagazine selfishly refuses to move publication date in order to accommodate childcare implosion. Husband selfishly unavailable to pinch hit, due to existence of own career. What to …
Start spreading the news: statistically speaking, motherhood can’t always wait
I had lunch the other day with a colleague who told me something totally alarming: that after age 40, the chances of a woman conceiving using natural methods is 5%. Five percent! Her point is that women suffer a great disservice when we’re told, over and over, that motherhood can wait. Go ahead, grind out the hours at the office; gun for …
Sex and the City? Fun. Jobs and the City? Boring.
Brooke Shields as Wendy in Lipstick Mafia. Or is it Cashmere Jungle? No, wait: it’s Sex and the Stressed Out, Sleepless Mama. / NBC
A few months ago, someone sent me the pilots to two upcoming TV series: Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia. They were oddly, even spookily, alike. I sort of vaguely knew their genesis: that Sex and the City …
Where my baby-mama gift at?
I so did not get a push present. And believe me, my pregnancy and delivery bit.
Gifts for new mothers are all the rage these days, say propoganda sites like BabyCenter.com. Said The New York Times …
I work, therefore I eat at home
“Me want food.” Anyone else watch 30 Rock? This is the thought bubble floating above my head at all times these days, so I thought it appropriate to blog consecutively about said subject matter.
My colleague Jeninne Lee-St. John pointed me to this article in Ad Age (did I mention I interned there? Worst internship of my life, except for …
