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The Working Closet

with Sarah

News Flash: the economy is in the toilet and pocketbooks are snapping shut. Following the lead of In Style's fashion director, Cynthia Weber Cleary, let's take a journey through our own closets for some fashion inspiration over the next few...

Problem Solved!

with Problem Solved

By Angella Dykstra of Dutch Blitz and Committed: The Ties That Bond People who have met me in the past eight years or so have a hard time believing that I was ever a "Big Girl". The cold hard truth is this: I was CHUBBY. I am surprised...

Ordering Disorder

with Chris Jordan

My garden runneth over with non-ripe vegetables. And sadly, the warm summer growing days are over. We have had frost a couple of nights now and so I was forced to pick everything. Remember the movie Fried Green Tomatoes?  I...

The Work It, Mom! Blog

with Nataly

According to a recent study women are much more stressed about the economy than men. One of the reasons may be that many more women are now in charge of making major household decisions, including managing money. If you're the one looking at...

Milk and Cookies

with Linda and Kristen

So, it turns out an 8-month-baby is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ENTITY than, say, a newborn. In many ways they are a vast improvement on their squashed, red-faced little counterparts, but unlike a newborn, an 8-month-old does not sleep all day. Nor...

Working (On) Motherhood

with Leah

It's official: I've entered the Uncomfortable Stage of pregnancy. After breezing through the first and second trimesters with (nearly) nary a whimper, the third trimester dawned with a triumverate of complaints: my back hurts, my ribs hurt,...

Cornered Office

with Mir Kamin

When I was growing up, my dad was something of a workaholic. That's not to say that he wasn't around for stuff---he was---but he went to work early and worked all day and often went back to work again in the evenings or on the weekend. Even...

Full Time, All the Time

with Karen and Robyn

Last week, right about the same time the first commenter was leaving her comment on my previous post , I walked into the office of my boss, and turned in my written resignation. The truth is, he knew it was coming.  I'd warned him it...

Committed: The Ties that Bond

with Angella

I come from a family where divorce runs rampant. I have lived through the aftermath as a child of divorce and vowed at a young age that I did not want to go down that same path. I determined that I wanted to marry a man who shared my faith,...

Moms On Issues

with Sara and Veronica

A shocking, to some, study [pdf] came out last month in the Journal of Applied Psychology concluding that men who hold sexist ideals make more money than anyone else. So what does this mean to us working girls and the good guys out there? For...

Catch Your Breath

with Karen M & Karen R

I had a photoshoot this weekend with a professional photographer (because, you know, I'm fancy like that), and she gave me a piece of advice that resulted in awesome photographs. The advice?  Breathe. Yeah yeah, I know.  We hear that...

Work It, Dad!

with Avi Spivack

Guess who's the disciplinarian in the family, Brad or Angelina? That's right, it's mommy. Are you surprised that it's the woman in the house? I'm not. It seems that if you look back across the landscape of American mass culture of family...

The 36-Hour Day

with Lylah M. Alphonse

Even though I love to cook, there are definitely days when I feel all cooked out -- when the very thought of planning and thawing and cooking makes me not want to eat for a week. Makes me look at my kids and ask, "Didn't I feed you earlier?...

Mommy Needs a Business

with Kristen

Most of my sales from my small business is online. Until recently, ALL of my business was online but now my business is growing through wholesaling and craft shows. Wholesaling is a whole different animal. It's lots of fun. You put out all...

Single Mom at Work

with Kristin Darguzas

The economy is at the tip of the minds of nearly everyone these days: hesitancy is crisp in the autumn air, blog posts abound with tips of scrimping and saving and being frugal. I find myself avoiding headlines in the New York Times for fear...

Entrepreneur Mom

with Aliza Sherman

Why does it seem like switching banks is as hard - or harder - than switching health practitioners? Sometimes, we seem to have an irrational loyalty to others who are supposed to be in the business of helping us even when they are doing more...