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Godfrey Wishes You A Good Holiday Season

Do you know the great children’s album The Bottle Let Me Down? Get it, even if you don’t have kids...

Humbug

A recent "Grand Avenue" cartoon shows a grandmother and two kids standing in front of a store window. One kid...

Ask the Administrator: What Makes a Good Job Talk?

A new correspondent writes: I wonder if you'd consider posting a query to your readers about job talk expectations at...

A longer story than that

I recently started getting daily environmental digests from ScienceDaily. Each newsletter has more items in it than I have time...

Milestones

The Boy and The Girl are hitting new milestones. Last week we took them to a local park, where Santa...

Math Geek Mom: Ready, Set, Interview!

We economists have great respect for “markets”, the interaction of buyers and sellers of some good or service. While sometimes...

Guilt as a motivating force

Elizabeth Coffman posted a nice discussion on the guilt(s) associated with bicoastal marriages involving children. The "mommy guilt" and also...

Long Distance Mom: Carbon Guilt

Inside Higher Ed has done a good job with publicizing the humor and pain surrounding long distance couples and their...