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Balance, Not Perfection

The Plain Dealer published this op-ed, written by me, on May 5, 2005.  I don’t think I state any more clearly why I believe parents should share with other parents, “how they do it,” and particularly a parent who is holding out that status as a qualification for being second in line to the United States President. There's no shortage of documentation about how mothers feel crushed between simultaneous responsibilities. Earlier this year, Newsweek published a cover story

Sarah Palin: Settling for the face of feminism while trading in its soul

American Princess writes on BlogHer and on her own blog. I’m not that familiar with it, but I spent a few moments there this morning.  I like what I found - even though I disagree with it.  If I were a conservative woman, particular in her generation (let’s just say I could be her mom - I’m finding I could be the mom of a lot of women who let me befriend them lately though!), I can imagine making very

On the media-whipped PUMA phenom & a one-word directive: CHILL

I like Rebecca Traister's piece on the Party Unity My Ass loyalists in Salon very much but I love this woman. The setting:

Sexing up political candidates akin to Sex and The City

Grand Central Political published this column by Jennifer Nedeau of New Media Strategies and Human Folly, "Could A Little "Sex" Help Female Political Candidates?" Here's a tease:

HB 477: Torturing the ones we want to welcome, torturing ourselves

Multiple Ohio blogs have posted entries in a foreign language today to protest an Ohio statehouse bill that seeks to legislate English as the official state language: