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Women, Do What Is Right for You – If You Want
“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.” – Gloria Steinem I still remember when I received my college acceptance letter to UCLA. I was 17 and … Continue reading
In Case You Missed It
Dear Teenage Son, I’m taking a break from planning your 5th birthday party, which is exactly one month away. I need the break because I’m overwhelmed by the fact that you’re almost five…and I have no idea how to accommodate the expected 50 people we’re going to invite. I blame myself for making you such … Continue reading
“We have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” – President Barack Obama 2013 will be a year of forced, though not unwelcome, change for me. It has already started off with … Continue reading
Every third Sunday of June since my son was born I have been showered with messages of “Happy Father’s Day!” The first year it happened, my son was only a couple of months old and I was truly touched that my friends cared and acknowledged I was doing the work of two, even if it … Continue reading
Random Thoughts
- "Quit complaining, accept, and live...with joy."
- "Life will resolve itself. Let the moment play itself out. Life knows what It has in mind. Trust Life. It is on your side." - Neale Donald Walsch
