A comment in Jessie’s post last week prompted me to rise to her defense – alongside many others – after a reader taunted her life as a “main line mom” being “so difficult.” The reader also suggested that “working moms” were somehow more worthy of writing about their struggles. The comment bristled me in a [...]
I wrote this post on the late Acela train to NYC last night having dashed on board directly from Noah’s school show, a.k.a. THE EXTRAVAGANZA. I thought I would be able to see the entire show from start to finish because it started at 7:00 and my train wasn’t until 9:15. However, I learned yesterday [...]
I arrived in the Big Apple yesterday for a 24 hour whirlwind business trip. When all is said and done I will have spent 10 hours working, 6 hours sleeping, and 6 hours of downtime and 2 hours fighting U.N traffic. Usually when I am in NY (and not getting all my hair cut off [...]
Wharton Graduation May 1990 History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme. This quote is one of my favorites from Mark Twain and is entirely apropos after last week’s roller coaster ride on Wall Street and the subsequent government bailout of our financial system. So what business does a self-professed Mommy blogger have dishing about [...]
It is 11:00 p.m. in California which means my body thinks its 2:00 a.m. Before I keel over, I wanted to share with the MoB readers what I actually do for a living. For those who don’t know, I work for the venture capital industry. My organization educates Congress and others on Capitol Hill on [...]
Some MoB readers know that I travel for work. Not extensively but on average I find myself in another city every two weeks or so. It’s a blessing and a curse. A blessing because on the days that I am not traveling, I work from my home cave office which is incredibly convenient but incredibly [...]
