From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Swim Lessons

June 29, 2011

Growing up in Manhattan did not make me a good swimmer. Although I have no memory of swim lessons, I learned enough along the way to get myself across a pool, but barely. So naturally, I want my kids to learn to swim. When my first child turned 4, I thought we’d find the nearest [...]

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Going Organic Is Easier Than You Think

June 27, 2011

Just 1.3 percent of imported fish, vegetables, fruit and other foods are inspected — yet those government inspections regularly reveal food unfit for human consumption. 1.3 percent!  That means that 98.7 of imported produce comes into our country without even a glance.  I can’t believe it. Non-US farmers can (and do!) use pesticides, chemical fertilizers, [...]

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Can We Stop Talking About “Balance?”

June 22, 2011

I attended a workshop last week for women in the corporate world.  Most of the seminar was cliche (find your courage, blah blah blah), but this one point stuck out.  The trainer quoted this from the Atlantic Journal, written in 1833: “The world is too big for us.  Too much is going on, too many crimes, [...]

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Challenging Valentine

June 20, 2011

You know it’s going to be a challenging day when your five year-old, your five year-old BOY, looks at you in your outfit as you are about to walk out the door and go to a birthday party and says: “Did you sleep in those clothes?” And when you ask: “Does it look like I [...]

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If You Build It, They Will Come

June 17, 2011

Summer break has either started or is about to start all over the Bay Area. The buzz among the moms has shifted to summer plans and coordinating camps.  Remember that old saying from that Kevin Costner blockbuster of the 90s?  If you build it, they will come. In the movie, they were talking about baseball.  [...]

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A Mammoth Discovery at the Children’s Discovery Museum

June 15, 2011

Young scientists get a chance to dig deep at the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose thanks to the hands on nature of their new Mammoth Discovery exhibit. Years in the making, the exhibit recently opened, giving kids a chance not only to see amazing fossils discovered about two miles away from the museum, but [...]

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Why I Love San Jose Airport

June 13, 2011
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I’ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 17 years now, and for 15 of those years I’ve flown in and out of the area via San Francisco Airport. I had never really considered flying out of Oakland Airport, because it’s too far away from me, or San Jose Airport, because I thought [...]

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Giveaway: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

June 10, 2011

Summer break is here in the Bay Area.  Thank goodness the weather has finally turned from June-uary to June.  Even with the swimming at the pool, free afternoons playing with the kids across the street, and endless hours playing Wii, I know that come Monday I’ll already have to start hearing “Moooooooom, I’m bored.”  By [...]

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Join the Club: Gender Discrimination in 2011

June 8, 2011

www.skinnyscoop.com I was recently reading an article in The New York Times about the fact that the Golden Gate Mothers’ Group (GGMG), a fantastic organization in San Francisco where I once served as a board member, does not allow men to join (because they are not mothers).  The article was written in such a way [...]

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The Tooth Fairy Doesn’t Fly to Eastern Europe

June 6, 2011

I didn’t get it right the first two times. I knew the deal. I knew I was supposed to take the tooth and leave the money. Simple, right? Not when you have your Czech mother in law whispering in your ear. “Noh. Leave the tooth. She loves it.” she croons. Her strong Czech accent somehow [...]

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