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Caroline Poser, technology marketing professional by day and author/columnist by night, is the mother of three sons. Ms. Poser's work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including the #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®. twitter.com/carolineposer

I glanced at my cell phone and saw that it was my kids’ elementary school calling, so I muted my conference call and answered the phone.
 
“This is So-and-so, principal of the abc elementary school.”
 
I knew ...

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Our bus route is “backwards” this year. That means we are the last stop instead of the first stop. That means my kids get on the bus at 8:40 instead of 8:20. Some might not think that 20 minutes is much of a big deal, but it seems like an eternity when I ...

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One day last week I caught myself polishing a silver serving stand after I dropped the kids off at camp, rather than returning to my office upstairs.

I was avoiding my more-than-a-page-long to-do list.
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I haven’t blogged in a while. I took a vacation with my kids three weeks ago and a) needed a vacation after the week b) had to play catch up with my job, even though I had checked in just about every day that I was “off,” and c) am still ...

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“You work? What do you do?”

“I manage a worldwide marketing program for one of the software brands at xyz company.” (As I write this, xyz company has an advertisement running on the “Welcome ...
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“I’ll pick you guys up at 5:30, we’ll go get your brother, and then we’ll have a “supermarket party.” (Everything’s more fun when you call it a “party,” including sock matching and vacuuming.)

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I had just joined a conference call that wasn’t on my calendar, that I had only realized was scheduled because the agenda had landed in my inbox ten minutes before the call.

It would be my 3rd meeting that morning and it wasn’t even ...

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“I’m going to have to put the phone down for a sec,” I sighed and said to the tech support rep. I was having trouble shouldering my phone and reinserting the dual in-line memory module into my laptop simultaneously.
 
I had to ...

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