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Jackie Glenn from our Vision Sponsor EMC and Wim Elfrink from our Host Sponsor Cisco opened our Advancement of Women India Conference with warm words of welcome to 200 women from dozens of companies. The setting was stunning in Cisco's gleaming headquarters. ... Read more...
Funny, when i began this blog as editor of workingmother.com, I thought about how i would approach my topics. As a career journalist, I thought I would enjoy commenting on the news of the day, the week, the year. News and ideas that affect working mothers and work ... Read more...
I was talking to one of my mentors the other day on the phone and he asked why my house was so quiet. When I told him that my son was at camp his response knocked me backwards. He said with a chuckle, "You moms...You ship the kids to camp so you ... Read more...
Only 16 years to go until we have an empty nest - theoretically.  That implies that our youngest will leave the house at 18 and head off to the Ivy league school I have in mind for him. Genius that he is and all. The 18 year old left this weekend, he mov ... Read more...
Tune in to channel Minneapolis NBC affiliate Kare-11 on June 11th at 6:20am and 4:00pm to see Kakie Fitzsimmons, co-Author of the award winning Read more...
 I was recently sitting around with my business partners chatting about our Mabel journey. We realized that over the last few years, the Mabel lifestyle has at times been a bit crazy. We have certainly found ourselves in some pretty wacky situations. So enterta ... Read more...
The count down to the first ultrasound (dating ultrasound) is 9 days.  I know the first ultrasound won't show much more than a small blob that will look more like a tadpole than a baby, but I'm still excited.  We have told a few people, but not many.  ... Read more...
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I had a business trip this week to meet with some of my colleagues at the Bonnier Corp headquarters in Winter Park FL not far from Disney World. It was a fantastic trip, busy.  We rain between buidlings in afternoon rainstorms, and an hour later walked outside ... Read more...
After a full day's work at the Diversity Best Practices Global Symposium we left Cisco in a big bus to go to the Taj Hotel, where our friends from Sodexo hosted a dinner party for speakers, sponsors and important guests. The Taj is a magnificent, brand new ho ... Read more...