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Mothering at Mid-Career: Communication
Updates from my daughter, now in her second week of college, come in the form of facebook status updates and...
Career Coach: More on Women, Majors and Careers
Two very intelligent and thoughtful responses to my previous post, on women and majors, caused me to reread the post...
Math Geek Mom: Infinity and Aardvarks
Last week, my first grader came home with thoughts about math (I love it when she does that!) She said...
Long Distance Mom: Birth Control - Politics vs. Environment
Why is birth control an expensive, hot potato issue for the national health care debate and barely mentioned as an...
ABC's and PhD's: Academic families
Last week my husband’s PhD advisor, Karel Liem, died after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. His death reminds me...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Labor Day
Many years ago, my husband and I planned our wedding for Labor Day weekend. Almost everyone we knew was a...
Math Geek Mom: Probabilities and Possibilities
Last week, as classes started, I performed an experiment that I always use on the first day of each of...
Motherhood After Tenure: Back to work, but with a difference
This week I head back to classes after a year-long sabbatical, my daughter begins kindergarten, and my husband reduces his...