The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money and Power. The photo of Arianna Huffington speaking about work life balance struck me as a great poster for a dinner theatre farce about the wealthy in America scheduling meetings with themselves instead of with their brokers. Call me cynical, but Arianna’s Third Metric rubbed [...]
June 10, 2013
This title sounds very self-helpy. Prioritizing the you in your life. You know this already. You know you need to Zen your life and drink a daily zinger of kale juice. Blah, blah, blah you want to say to me. I know. But just listen for a minute. Last week I attended the Third Metric [...]
June 6, 2013
Yesterday was the first day of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on sexual assault in the military. This is taking place because the women in our military, those ladies with Uzi’s fighting for our country, are also prying the creepy, wandering hands of the men in their troop off them. As a reminder, 26,000 [...]
May 29, 2013
About two months after Elke was born, I had a Mirena inserted. After my horrific pregnancy, my husband and I decided no more pregnancies and because he wasn’t ready to take the vasectomy plunge, I took another one for the team (as my best friend likes to say) by being the one responsible for birth [...]
May 22, 2013
Four hundred women are being held for moral crimes in Afghanistan. Women so desperate to escape intolerable situations they ran. They live in a country where that decision will leave them at a societal deficit, if they are ever released from jail. If released, families often shun such women, leaving them to die on the [...]
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 Dear Gabe, Happy 18th birthday. When you were born, we were so surprised and delighted and amazed. As with all babies, Dad and I had to get adjusted to you. Our first hurdle was that you were human. Dad referred to the pediatrician as the vet on more than one [...]
May 16, 2013
In response to Hayley’s piece from yesterday, the question about how the three young women who were prisoners in a Cleveland home for a decade, go on, I have no answers. I’m sure that balloons and stuffed animals are not going to make things right. I work with young women and grown women and young [...]
May 15, 2013
I can’t take my mind off them. Of the details that continue to emerge. Today on Jezebel sources said there’s a reason we’ve only seen photos of Amanda Berry and haven’t seen photos of Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus. Apparently Amanda Berry was treated differently–special, oh, so special, that lucky girl–than the other girls who [...]
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