You know those friends that you had all your first experiences with? First solo visit to the mall? First illegal drink? First cigarette? First (and last) time shoplifting? Of course you do. We all do. So it's only apropos that we'd be with those friends the day our sons discovered internet porn. It was a …
Continue reading Help! My kids watched bad stuff on the internet!!!
My first attempt at a #DailyPost. Go easy on me. Ten years is a long time. Like, a whole DECADE. Ten years of my life married to the same guy. Living in the same house (ok, a handful of homes, but always together). Sleeping in the same bed (oh, the snoring!). Ten years of (mostly) …
I've been a woman in a sea of outspoken extroverted men my entire career. Sure, there are others like me, but we are a measly few compared to the masses. And sure, we gotta stick together, because the guys certainly do. But just because they get us confused and use our names interchangeably, that doesn't …
Continue reading Identity Crisis: What is your working girl persona?
Wanna know a little secret? My hair isn't really straight. Yup, I'm a curly girl. Not just wavy, or frizzy. I'm talking bout full on Shirley Temple ringlets. And no, I don't have keratin treatments, and I stopped doing the thermal reconditioning that was killing my hair every six months. It's just curly sue spirals, …
I'm not a control freak, I swear. I actually think I'm pretty laid back most of the time. But there is one thing that drives me off the deep end, and that is losing stuff. Not just valuables (like the necklace that disappeared on our last trip to Aruba), or sentimental things like my poetry …
Continue reading Mama Meltdowns: The 12 Phases Of Misplacing Miscellanies
My father recently "retired" from his career as an attorney after 40 years of complaining, calling in sick, and essentially hating life. He still complains, he still hates life, and still calls out sick to things like family celebrations, so ironically, it wasn't the career ailing him after all. He barely has family, he definitely …
Continue reading Insta-Dad: Step Away From The Social Network
It's not easy being pink. I recently saw the term "pink vs blue jobs" during my hours scouring the bloggerverse as I ramp up this endeavor. Simple as it sounds, I never thought of it that way. As an equity trader on a trading floor, I always sorta just saw myself as a girl in …
Continue reading The New P Word: Pink Person In A Blue World
Love is love. Work is work. We hear these phrases often in different contexts. I'd also venture to throw out the sage advice that love is work. But that is not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about love at work. Not the salacious forbidden kind of office romance you're already …
Continue reading Never Say Goodbye: My Workwife is Leaving Me!
My boys are proud of me. They know their mom is different than a lot of moms they know. She works. She takes a train to the City every morning before they even wake up, and comes home after dinner each night. She has a computer with a lot of screens. She makes money so …
Continue reading A Day at the Office Through the Eyes of My Child
It's January, which means it's Awards Season! I love movies and red carpet glam as much as the next girl. But who has time for any of it anymore? The only films we get to see are animated and populated by lost fish or glittery trolls or singing barn animals, and the Red Carpet specials are …
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