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Career Coach: Rules of the Wronged
In her June 30 column, Maureen Dowd offers a series of sardonic “pointers” for women whose politician husbands have been...
Motherhood After Tenure: Finding Focus, Letting Things Go
I’ve just realized that when I’m exercising I take responsibility for the whole room. Let me clarify: I’m not teaching...
Career Coach: More on the Mature Mama PhD
Psychology is a second career for me. I returned to graduate school at age 36, and turned 40 during my...
Math Geek Mom: You CAN Go Home Again
The first few weeks of graduate school, several facts became apparent. I am sure that I should have realized these...
Long Distance Mom: Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting
After being in a relationship with my current partner for almost as long as my marriage lasted, I decided that...
ABC's and PhD's: Towards a New Normal
For the past nearly two months I’ve been working towards some sort of new normal as I recover from and...
Mothering at Mid-Career: What Keeps You Organized?
We leave for a six-week stay in England next Monday. In between now and then I have to finish my...
Career Coach: Never Getting the Offer
I am a 55-year-old woman with a Ph.D. in economic history, 6 books and quite a few scholarly articles on...