Parents will do almost anything for kids. Not just their own kids, but their siblings’ kids, their best friends’ kids, the kid down the street…sometimes just any kid at all. So, last year, when my friend (who is like a…
Category: And Working Mother
As a wife and working mother of three boys, I blog for the sake of my family because if I don’t make notes here about where they can all find their socks, they’ll be lost without me when I’m gone.
Sharpen Your Pencils
That term came up in a call today and it got me thinking. I started looking around my office and there wasn’t a single pencil in sight. I haven’t written with a pencil in ages. I have pens…lots of pens. …
Mi Amigos in Downtown Phoenix
I go to Mi Amigos, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Phoenix’s Arizona Center, regularly for lunch. Regularly enough, in fact, that the manager never fails to stop by our table and say hi, knows us by name, and makes sure…
When You Can’t Unwind
Does this happen to you? Drag your tired self to bed only to find your head won’t shut down: Am I spending enough quality time with the kids? Did I send out the car payment? I think the boys need…
This Way Out
My office door has been closed so long at work due to a head-pounding round of conference calls related to a project I feel sure is being haunted by a poltergeist that I forgot what it looked like outside of…