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The story that stands out from my listening to all news radio as I got ready for my day yesterday and today is the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The discussion of tactics for those who would keep her off the High Court Bench became th ... Read more...
I’ve been doing a bit of complaining about having to find a car that suits our family. I was whining about this on my other blog (www.thebabymachine.com).
The biggest iss ... Read more...
The recession has caused families across America to rethink how they deal with child care. It's never an easy thing for working parents as we all know. And every year the demands are different, depending on the ages, stages, and numbers o ... Read more...
As the economy crunched budgets at my office last fall, our CEO encouraged the executives to take more time off to keep our vacation time from accruing.
I jumped at this idea! I started a tradition that I will maintain long after o ... Read more...
My first two were boys. I was SO happy there wasn't a draft anymore, and I was determined not to let them play with toy guns. No matter how imaginary, I considered that to be a form of violence.
But boys will be boys. Before long they were using their fingers ... Read more...
No, it's not the end of the month yet. But we have already had a week's vacation with the family - the week leading into the 4th of July, And I have returned to the office (did you miss me?) to find a pile of projects and steady deadlines that need to be met.& ... Read more...
It's been just about a year now and I'm still at it...this whole running my own company thing. Toyi Ward Communications, LLC will be a year old next week and I must admit I’m grateful that 'm still here. The statistics on the failure rate of new bu ... Read more...
One week down, eight more to go.
This week four of the kiddos were enrolled in a little tennis camp in the neighbourhood for two hours a day. The plan was that in those two hours I would have enough time to clear out my e-mail inbox, update my Facebook status ... Read more...
As I anticipate jumping back on the pregnancy wagon, I am also watching changes to my company's benefits very closely -- and working in HR, I have a front row seat. For many years, and like many other companies, my company spent pretty much every dollar that c ... Read more...
"Mommy, mooooommmmmeeee" the war cry of the two year old. He whines it as a soother to himself - with the opposite grating affect on my single remaining nerve. Yet, these nerves are amazing powerful things, they seem to regenerate similar to th ... Read more...
