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February 18, 2015
Working Mom Life: You Belong Here
Working Mom Life is an interview series featuring real working mothers who are figuring out how to get the job done. Because there are more ways to be a working mom than there are ways to fold a cloth diaper, we can all learn from each other.Ihope you’lljoin the conversation #WorkingMomLife.
Kellee Mayfield keeps hearts beating, literally, as a sales and clinical specialist for pacemakers and defibrillators. She’s alsoa talented painter, and writes about life in southeast Arkansas on her popul...
February 11, 2015
Murder by Mexican Food: A Simple Plan
At a recent dinner with girlfriends I learned a shocking truth: 90% of them fantasize about murdering their husbands. I’m not talking about passive, “what if he fell off the ladder” daydreams such as I occasionally indulge. I’m talking full-on deliberate master planning of the demise and dispatch of the spousal body. Maybe because most of the women I know are the primary food and personal grooming product providers for their husbands, most of the strategies involve some sort of poisoning. Mos...
February 4, 2015
Capsule Wardrobe: Saving This Working Mother’s Morning
I’m only somewhat embarrassed to admit that the hardest part of going back to work has been getting dressed each morning. Enter the solution: acapsule wardrobe. This simple concept has changed each and every morningfor the better, simplified my days, and — I believe — improved upon my style, although that partis debatable and ultimately irrelevant. What is important is that I no longer worry about what to wear, or waste precious morning moments arguing with myself over the right outfit only t...
January 28, 2015
Calendar This
My husband’s company recently switched from the antiquated Lotus Notes to Google for all their messaging. This was the catalyst for me to finally convert from an equally obsolete paper calendar to an electronic one. My husband and I could finally synchronize our calendars. Never again would we speak in clipped tones about the “surprise” soccer practice or missed dental appointment. And all without persistent verbal reminders from me. Either one of us could create an event and invite the other...
January 25, 2015
Stick Around For Small Stories
Welcome to my small stories. So happy you stopped by.
These stories are not probably not going to change your life, but they might make you realize that your troubles and frustrations arenot so different than anyone else’s. That thing that you thought no one else did– they do. That time your son didn’t pick up his backpack quickly enough so you screamed at him because you were really mad at your husband because he doesn’t understand why it’s so important not to use the kitchen towel to clean u...
January 21, 2015
Working Mom Life: Expectations Are For Suckers
Working Mom Life is an interview series featuring real working mothers who are figuring out how to get the job done. Because there are more ways to be a working mom than there are ways to fold a cloth diaper, we can all learn from each other.Ihope you’lljoin the conversation #WorkingMomLife.
Eileen Jennings is a commercial banker, clothing designer, homesteader wannabe, and breast cancer survivor. She is also mom to a six-year-old daughter, Scout. And as you can see from her homemade meme belo...
January 14, 2015
Portrait of a Junk Drawer
As a kid I once opened the wrong drawer at a friend’s house. Instead of the spoons her mother had asked for, I found a broken ruler, chewed pencils, and a padlock splattered with paint.
“Junk drawer,” the mom said. “Everybody’s got one.”
What a relief. We had a drawer at home that held hair bands, restaurant matches, and inkless pens. I’d assumed this was our family’s particular shame. Learning that other people suffered the junk-sickness was comforting, but still, I wanted better for myself. W...
January 7, 2015
What’s Your Super Power?
If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be? This is the question I started asking myself in late December after clicking the kind of headline that sucks me in every time:The One Question All Successful People Can Answer Immediately. Who doesn’t click that? Don’t you want to be successful? Like, right now?Ever since I went back to work I’ve been devouring stories like this from The Muse, thesepromises to make me better after an easy 2-minute read. They usually deliver. Articles on...
December 31, 2014
Making Babies, the Sexy Way
The baby making started one Saturday afternoon, sitting in our very cool Seattle condo, the one with the herbs growing on the tiny lanai and the Trader Joe’s across the street. Within walking distance was the gym where I spent no less than six hours a week, amazingly good and affordable restaurants, killer views, concerts, and half a dozen coffee shops. My husband and I did whatever we wanted. At twenty-seven, I felt the pressure of my biological clock. No one in my mother’s family had made i...
December 23, 2014
Apology Note for Traveling with a Baby (aka Your Boss)
Should parents hand out apology goodie bags when flying with babies? I don’t think so, and I’m not oneto eat candy from strangers. Rebecca Dube wrote a nice piece about why we should all opposethis weird new custom, and I agree a baby is nothing to apologize for. Not on planes, not in church, and the grocery store is a free for all, got it?However, I think maybe we could apply the practice of preemptive apologies to other troublesome travelers. Likea co-worker*.
Hi Stranger,
My name is Bob. I w...
