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Girl Friendships: I Love Her. I Love Her Not.
(Image Source / Corbis) My best friend Liz and I had one fight when we were seniors in high school. I caught her crinkling her nose about something I said. And so I teased her. She didn’t like that. I believe I taunted her a bit. She didn’t like that either. Outside, we screamed at […]
Getting the Job Done: Women and Work Life
October 12, 2011
by Miriam Novogrodsky
Women are good at compartmentalizing, juggling, balancing and yeah, bringing home the bacon. Well, some women. I have orange sticky notes all over my desk outlining each day otherwise I’d stop somewhere after walking my dog, Orli. Actually, after walking Orli and drinking crazy strong tea with Gail. See, it seems to me that after Gail […]
Sex After Pregnancy: AKA My Postpartum Booty Call
October 10, 2011
by Miriam Novogrodsky
Guest Post By Andrea Chisholm I will never forget the sloppy red crayon heart drawn around the date of my six-week postpartum visit. Did he really think I was looking forward to “medical clearance” for the bedroom? Wasn’t he there in the delivery room? Hadn’t he witnessed the destruction? Why hadn’t he given any of […]
Alabama’s Anti-Immigration Law: What Happened To Putting Children First?
October 7, 2011
by Miriam Novogrodsky
In Montgomery, Alabama, 231 Hispanic children were absent last Thursday, the day the state’s new anti-immigration law took effect. Last week, Alabama was awarded the dubious honor of being the first state in US history to request documentation of citizenship when enrolling children in school. I’m not purporting to understand the ends and outs of […]
Occupy Wall Street: This is Everyone’s Issue
October 5, 2011
by Hayley Krischer
I was out to dinner the other night with some women–one I had never met. She was an interesting woman. Vivacious. Outspoken. A yoga teacher. Honest about the difficulties of parenting. But she said something to me that I found disturbing. “You grew up on the east coast. You know nothing about what it’s like […]
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Lessons in Obesity: Our Kids, Chris Christie and Melissa McCarthy
October 5, 2011
by Hayley Krischer
Living in the east coast bubble, I often say that I my kids are immune to childhood obesity. What obesity? My kid is a rail. His friends are rails. They’re over-scheduled and neurotic, yes. Obese, no. (Okay, that’s not totally true, according to the “How Obesity Threatens America Report, 2011″ New Jersey runs around the […]
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October 14, 2011
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