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I live in suburban Los Angeles with my husband, two daughters, a hamster, and a Beta fish. I have been working in higher education administration for more than 20 years and I hold an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University. My interests include women's leadership, work-life balance, and youth soccer.
Career advice columnists and well-intentioned mentors will always tell you to dress not for the job you have, but for the job you want. Remember Melanie Griffith in Working Girl? If we could see beyond the sexist and class-based stereotype ... Read more...
I’ve got information overload. As a working woman approaching 50, mother of a teenager and 3rd grader who struggles with reading, a wife, colleague, friend, sister, daughter, and global citizen, I feel the pressure to keep up with the latest ... Read more...
Last week I dropped off my 14 year old daughter at overnight camp. That means three weeks without hearing the thump-thump-thump of her sleepy footsteps coming downstairs in the morning, and without a bathroom counter strewn with hair products ... Read more...
My 14 year old just got back from a two day overnight to Disneyland. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 24 years and only today did I learn about “Grad Night” from my colleagues at work. It’s a time-honored southern California tradition – one night in mid-Jun ... Read more...
I get it – a sense of humor helps people to cope, to relate, and to not take life too seriously. But I’ve never found it funny when parents joke about their inability to keep up with the responsibilities of parenting, as in, “Johnny is wearin ... Read more...
Everyone, it seems, has a different opinion about
Facebook. I know people whose spouses
won't allow them to join Facebook for fear that it's just a place to
hook-up. I have friends who use it
pr ... Read more...
Picture this: four
teenage girls seated at the dining room table to a feast of their favorite
foods including sushi, cheese and crackers, pizza, strawberries, mini-cupcakes,
and lemon bars. This ... Read more...
If you've ever had a broken heart, you know that love is not guaranteed. If you've ever crouched beside a small child in an emergency room, whispering words of love, reassurance, and prayer as the doctor tenderly stitched a gaping wound, you know that motherhood i ... Read more...
The Prime Minister of India has called for "dispassionate debate" regarding sexual violence against women in his country and how to proceed in the wake of the death of the 23 year old medical student who died yesterday from injuries suffered when she was gang raped ... Read more...
Today I did it. I went to Control Panel and clicked "Accessibility Options." Some of you will know exactly what that means. For the uninitiated (or Mac users) "Accessibility Options" is what you click if you want to change your font settings; in other wor ... Read more...
