A friend posted a link to the New York Times article following up with the moms from the "Opt-Out Revolution" 10 years ago .  It...

Baby. Bonus points if you guess where that song lyric is from. I had the perfect flexible "job" today where I was able to br...

Photo by JASELabs on Flickr I sent out my "goodbye email" today at work.  I sent the email to about 75 people I've worked ...

BabyM wonders if she has it all The media is all a-flutter with the same old stories of whether women "can have it all", thank...

(This was first published on the WomenTech blog in October 2011. I'm trying to consolidate my writing here, so I'm reposting with a...

Apparently today is the day to read More Working Mother posts.  Laura Vanderkam has a post about the resignation letter from a lawyer wh...

If you missed, them, here are: Part I of the Parental Leave Checklist Part II of the Parental Leave Checklist Just like the previous set...

I suppose it's a bit ironic that I'm writing a post about why I work when technically, I don't have to go back to the office for...

Here's Part I of the Parental Leave Checklist  if you missed it. This next set of tasks is harder to time correctly, since babies don...

hooray for babies! I am about 6 weeks away from starting my maternity leave, if Baby X' arrives on her scheduled birthdate.  For the...

I wasn't going to write about Marissa Mayer's appointment to be CEO of Yahoo, figuring many of my fellow bloggers (ones I read , ev...

I work best when I have a large chunk of uninterrupted time to focus on a project.  In fact, in that case, I'm unstoppable.  I don'...

Cloud has an awesome post about work-life balance with a couple of great points: 1.  If you don't ask for it, your boss won't kno...

My favorite lesson from Laura Vanderkam's excellent 168 Hours was reframing "I don't have time for xyz" as "xyz is n...

sometimes life is all rainbows and rottweilers On the anonymous parenting question list at work, every couple of months someone posts a...

We've only been back from Ireland for about 2 weeks which is surprising because in some ways it feels like AGES. I was still horrib...

 this is why we do it In honor of International Womens' Day, I'm contributing to the Blog Carnival hosted by feMOMhist on ho...

(I'm recycling this post from my now-defunct work blog, slightly updated.) I've conducted a lot of interviews at my company for bo...