After years of charging for access to parts of the New York Times, the newspaper is now opening up its full online content to the world again–for free! Starting tomorrow, you won’t need a special subscription to read your favorite columns or archived articles from 1987 to the present. It’s yours for the taking … [...]
Good Reads If You’ve Got a Slow Monday
I don’t know about you, but I am crazy-busy today. If you happen to have a little time on your hands, check out these articles. I’ll be back later with a more substantive post. Moms: Do you, too, yearn for a wife? According to this New York Times article, more working moms these days want [...]
Million Dollar Momma
I love to read the New York Times on Sundays, but sometimes I wonder who, exactly, the newspaper staff is writing for. Certainly people with a heck of a lot more disposable income than I have. Case in point: the story in today’s Style section that features Mother’s Day gift suggestions. (To see the article, [...]
More Married Mamas Dropping Out of the Workforce
Here’s a little newsflash for ya: As a working mom, I’m in the majority–but it’s a shrinking majority. According to this op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times, the numbers of working moms of infants (like Tela and me) and preschoolers (like Cara and Sara) are dropping significantly. The author of the piece, Linda Hirshman, [...]
Supermoms in Training
I happened to come across this New York Times article (For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too), and man, did it take me back to the “good ol’ days.” The article features two high school senior girls in an affluent Boston suburb who are part of a group of “amazing girls”–defined as such [...]
Could Working Moms Save the World?
Settling in with my New York Times Magazine on Sunday, I stumbled upon this article. It’s about how women in industrialized nations are having fewer and fewer children. Apparently, this is freaking out folks who keep track of that kind of thing, because shrinking birth rates lead to, “fewer workers, graying populations and dire predictions [...]
