About Working Moms

Next Monday has been dubbed Cyber Monday by the nation's retailers, in honor of the shopping deals they put online in an attempt to rival Black Friday, the busiest in-person shopping day of the year......

For the last 32 hours I have had no Internet access. You can imagine how hard it has been to work! Oddly enough, though, I found that the site I missed the most was Pandora. I could access Google and some email (limited attachments) on my Blackberry, until it ran out of batteries......

I was at the playground with a stay-at-home mom friend on a sunny summer day chatting as we watched our two-year olds climb the jungle gym. Our conversation ranged over the usual topics: the news, politics, movies, books......

Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, will be released tomorrow. So naturally, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate is appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show today as part of the publicity around the book's publication......

I've blogged before about how I think the mommy wars are a media myth......

Today is Veterans Day, when America honors all living veterans of military service. That includes 1.8 million female veterans, many of whom are working moms. How will you mark Veterans Day......

The H1N1 flu hit my daughter's daycare center last week. Immediately, the center imposed a new rule that sick children must be fever free for 48 hours, without medication, before returning to care......

When I was casting about for support in my new-working-momhood, one of the first sites I discovered was Working Moms Against Guilt......

I'm in Singapore this week, and since there's no Thanksgiving here, the Christmas decorations are already going up! While this may seem crazy in early November, it is the perfect reminder for me to start trolling for great holiday gifts at bargain prices......

Recently, a friend went on a work trip to Paris. I instantly imagined the scene: beautiful wide boulevards, enticing cafes, clean hotel sheets and a full night's sleep without a single child demanding water, a blanket or comfort for a bad dream. Yes, I was jealous......

This Halloween was torture for me because I was separated from my kids. I asked my husband and dad to videotape their expressions and take lots of photos, but the two-dimensional experience just wasn't the same......

As much as we in the media like to write about the gender pay gap and working moms' woes, we would fall short of hard data if it weren't for academics doing actual research on our work-life struggles......

Earlier this month, my husband and I celebrated his birthday with a fancy dinner and dancing. Just as I was about to pay, I asked if the establishment honored any discounts. To my delight, the answer was yes and we saved 15 percent on the overall bill......

I don't remember Halloween being this big a deal when I was a kid. My children have already been to two pumpkin patches, received a "Boo" package from an anonymous neighbor, prepared reciprocal "Boo" baskets for two other neighbors and tried on their costumes every night for a week......