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Mothering at Mid-Career: Do professors matter?
Somewhere in my blog reading over the last few weeks I ran across a link to a brief piece in...
Career Coach: The WSJ Flapdoodle
I came late to this party — I was away when Naomi Schaeffer Riley’s article came out, and when I...
Math Geek Mom: Constrained Optimization at the Cafeteria Table
A friend from college is spending the year in Rome, on sabbatical with his family, writing two books. Despite the...
Long Distance Mom: Frogs, Whales and Camping
Summer is when we expose our kids (particularly our city kids) to nature, gardening and camping gear. My teenagers already...
ABC's and PhD's: Let's keep up the chatter and navel-gazing
I found the recent Wall Street Journal article about family-work balance blogs surprising. After all, in my own family my...
Blogging, Politics, and the Personal
Blogs are boring. Did you know? No less an authority than the Wall Street Journal has decreed it so; indeed...
Career Coach: Finding Financial Support
Dear Susan, I just came across your blog, and I am excited to find women discussing the stresses of balancing...
Math Geek Mom: Making Mistakes (Sometimes in Public)
When I was in graduate school, one of our teachers suggested to those of us planning to go on to...