After sending out an SOS for ideas on how to use up school portrait wallet-size pictures, and getting some suggestions (thank you!), I remembered that my friend Lindsay had sent a brilliant card when her first-born, Liam, was in first grade. And I actually found it in a box right near my desk within five [...]
Coming off the weekend, I had a number of topics from which to choose for this glorious Monday morning post. In fact, I had actually settled on a bit of commentary surrounding my recent experiment involving some over the counter CVS brand teeth whitener. However, MoB readers will have to sit on the edge of [...]
Last night we all converged in the kitchen at 9 PM, post-homework by pre-arrangement, for The Office. In a second burst of uncharacteristic culinary initiative in one week, I’d made a quiche while Chris and Hugh were outside doing yard work, and all was in readiness. Except we couldn’t find Malcolm, who had been skateboarding, [...]
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 [...]
Attention, School Picture Studios! Times have changed! Kids still carry wallets but trust me, they are NOT trading photos of their friends like Pokemon cards, much less carting around a collection of postage-stamp-sized photos in their hip pocket. That is not cool. Now there’s FaceBook. Kids post photos, comment on them, and post updates on [...]
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 [...]
We live in a 1901 house. When we moved here in 1995, we loved the light, the fireplace, the extra space for an in-home office, the nice yard…but we hated the cruddy kitchen. Peeling ancient cabinets, a terrible layout, a mish-mash of depressing appliances – it was all horrible. It was intolerable. It had to [...]
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 [...]
We’ve all seen the opening lines of Anna Karenina referenced a million times: ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ I never read the book. My book club has occasionally considered, then decided against, choosing it. Over the summer, one of those authors interviewed in Newsweek put it [...]
Last night Joe Biden held a rally at the local apple orchard about two miles from our house. We were on the fence about going, only because I was headed out to California this morning and didn’t know what kind of stress monster I would be at 4:30 in the afternoon. But there was a [...]
