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Working Mother Solves the "Find a Babysitter" Problem
Finding a reliable babysitter is an ongoing challenge for working parents. Referrals are great, but unless you have one at your disposal, it can be a search in the dark for someone to care for your...
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Mail or Delete Multiple Photos with Your iPhone
[Editor's Note: You can speed up your handling of iPhone camera images with multiple deletes or the mailing of multiple photos at once. Sarah from Life {Sweet} Life takes you through the process step...
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SWAK: Do You Kiss Your Kids on the Lips?
A lovely friend of mine posted something on Facebook the other day, which then led to a rather surprising discussion. I'm bringing it here, because I found it so odd, so left field, that I had never...
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Something Surprising I Learned from Food Blogging
A month from today, BlogHer Food '12 will be winding down in Seattle. Can you believe it? We hardly can! There's just so much to do between now and then -- which includes registering for this amazing...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Gay Marriage Should Be Legal
Saying, "It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," President Barack Obama declared his support for legalizing same-sex marriage, the...
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A New Appreciation for My Own Mom
Mother's Day is great time to reflect on our own mothers -- so of course we thought featuring a post in our More than Mother's Day celebration that does just that would be a great idea. Becoming a mom...
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(Interview) Log Cabin Republicans: Obama's Playing Politics With LGBT Families
Just moments after President Barack Obama made the Twittersphere explode over his announcement in support of marriage equality on ABC, the three-decade-old Log Cabin Republicans sent out this tweet: If...
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Taking Things on Faith
So much of our modern lives is rooted in taking that grand leap of faith - something I face every time I get on a plane:"So much of our daily life is based on faith. Not necessarily Faith, with a...
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Rereading Your Blog: A Birds Eye View of Your Life
Blogs have a tendency to operate like Dumbledore's Pensieve; you take things out of your brain, place it on the screen, and watch the words swirl around until you can see patterns form. It's not just...
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Ten Tips: How to Break Photography Rules
We've all been there: You had a vision of the perfect photo of your kid and just when you have it all set up, they want nothing to do with you. You bribe them with candy, a trip to the ice cream store...
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After Years of Being Forced to Celebrate Without a Mom, I Loathe Mother’s Day
I loathe Mother’s Day. I know that may seem peculiar since I am a mother myself, but I have not always been. I grew up without a mom, and this day was a reminder every year that while everyone was...
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Forget the Boobtroversy: Why Does TIME Think Dads Can't Practice Attachment...
If you have been on the internet in the last twenty-four hours I’m sure you’ve seen this cover of Time magazine and heard some rumblings over it. The headline asks “Are you mom enough?” and the...
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Snickerdoodle Coffee Cake
[Editor's Note: Though I make no secret of my preference for non-sweet breakfasts, you'll almost never see me turn down a bite of coffee cake. This recipe, which combines my sweet guilty pleasure with...
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Pin Pricked: A Cautionary Tale About the Dark Side of Pinterest
At first, I was reluctant to join the Pinterest bandwagon. Curiosity got the better of me, and I casually requested an invite from a friend. Before I knew it, it would be 2am and I'd still be surfing...
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From Covered Wagons to the Chicago Skyline: A Celebration of Mothers Past and...
The other day I was wondering about my great-grandmother and the land she came to Illinois to Homestead with her husband and eight kids. I have a photograph of the family in my office, all seated in...
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The Disability Truth
You’ve come a long way with me. You know that I’m profoundly deaf, often silly, and unfailingly clumsy. You might also know that I lipread and I speak clearly. This puts me in a rare category that many...
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YA Lit: Real Diversity or Coffee-Colored Characters?
If you are white, you might not even think twice that most characters in books are the same race as you. But for black, Latino, and Asian readers -- especially young adults -- the choices in literature...
View ArticleBlogHer Conference Update - - May 11, 2012
It's Friday, and Mother's Day weekend here in the US (maybe other places too), so to all you moms celebrating this weekend or other weekends -- have a great day! Now, on to our update...Let's start...
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New Websites and Apps for Kids
Lori from The Well Connected Mom attended The Digital Kids Conference and came home with an armload of ideas for new sites and apps your kids will love. She explains, Although the conference focuses...
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Thoughts on Siblings and Spacing and the Gift of Each Other
[Editor's Note: Our boys are two years and one week apart and some people think we're crazy. We are, but that's not the reason behind our decision to have our kids that close. It was a complex decision...
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