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First, welcome to any new readers who saw my last post highlighted in this month's issue of Chicago Parent! Next...the wrap-up for the first weekend of training for the Progressive Women's Voices program. It was a blast and so tiring! Sadly Carmen & Kristin had prior commitments and had to miss the opening weekend. But the women who were ...

Sometime late last year a friend emailed me a description of a new program being offered through the Women's Media Center. It's called Progressive Women's Voices and it is a media training and spokesperson program to connect media professionals with smart, media-savvy women experts in a variety of fields. Funded primarily by a generous ...

Remember the days when you just needed patience and a dollar to see a movie? Well now all you need is patience and five dollars! Kerosotes Theaters have this nifty club ingeniously called, The Five Buck Club. I read about it on Gapers Block a few months ago, filled out the application, and within a week or so, my member card showed up in the mail. ...

For the record, I'm not supporting anyone in the 2008 election at this point. I'm watching, reading, and trying to decide between a few candidates. I am voting for a Democrat, but occasionally like what I hear from a few GOP candidates. Today thou is a whole 'nother story. In today's The Swamp, Sen. Obama rips into former-MA Gov. ...

The dreaded ''Mommy Wars'' usually pits working moms against stay at home moms. It took the genius of Sylvia Ann Hewitt and Linda Hirshman to top it off with a dollop of guilt. Hewitt began the baby panic with her 2002 book castigating us career gals with not having babies before we hit our ancient 30s. My all time favorite response was from ...

What does the Mommy Wars, the Summer of the Shark, and the Summer of Stranger Abductions have in common? All creations of the mainstream media. The facts are that most women who have children flow in and out of the workforce and even those who are classified as stay-at-home run businesses (Avon, Tupperware) or are freelance ...

In part one we defined the problem with the increase in sexualization of girls, in part two we discussed some of the criticisms of the APA report, and here we'll talk about what we DO to combat our girls' childhood being taken away from them. Let's get to it! Luckily for us the APA report [pages 36-42] does an excellent job at suggesting many ...

When do you know when you are ready to have a baby? That question is fundamental to today's women. We have so many choices that it is overwhelming. A few years ago Sylvia Ann Hewlett tried to scare us all into getting pregnant by stating that if we're not pregnant by 27, our best eggs are gone! In her memoir, Baby Love, Rebecca Walker ...

Please note this is a recreated post as I could not find it on the internet archive. Soon after the APA report was released my favorite (not) editorial writer came out with a critique. I have to say directly to Kathleen Parker, please come up with a new tune! She starts out by first showing us that she has no idea why reports like this are ...

Please note this is a recreated post as I could not find it on the internet archive. What do you say to that? As I stared at my 3.5-year-old my heart ached. Has it started already? ''You're always beautiful, mija.'' On one hand I can't say that it's much different than when I was a kid. I was dumped for a cuter girl by my best friend, Katie, ...