Posts Tagged ‘recession’


Let’s Not Take Our Children to Work Day

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Stressed man and laptopMy kids are not in my office, staring at me while I type. I know that it’s Take Your Children to Work Day, but as the offspring of a work-at-home blogger-writer-author-spokesperson, my kids see me work all too often, whether it’s Mom answering an e-mail from an editor while we’re in the cereal aisle at the supermarket, or all of us being followed to the school bus stop by The Today Show. (more…)

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Cutting Back on the Christmas Wow Factor

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

christmastreelightsI keep having this nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten something — something that would need to be wrapped by Thursday night. How can it be that my Christmas shopping took me exactly one trip to Target and a few clicks of my mouse? What — or who — am I forgetting? (more…)

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