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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 ...

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 ...