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Robyn Roark

Celebrity Story Time at Happy Hollow

May 16, 2013

With all the emphasis on STEM education these days, I’m glad to see that some still understand the importance of reading.  If we don’t get our kids to love to read, then learning science, tech, engineering, or math becomes even more difficult.  But what makes me the most happy is to see professional athletes taking [...]

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You Won’t See Photos of Me Breastfeeding

May 2, 2013

There’s a video of my eldest son’s first Christmas where my spouse took a shot of me nursing our then six month old son.  For the last eight years, I have cringed every time we show the video.  It isn’t obscene.  In fact, you can’t see boob or even a small part of my nipple.  [...]

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Hooray for Another Silicon Valley Baby

April 5, 2013

Robyn became a mom to three yesterday morning when she gave birth to a sweet baby girl! Finally. That finally really came from Robyn, who had been begging baby girl to move out of the womb for a few weeks. That creaking you hear is the power balance slowly shifting at Robyn’s house. This should [...]

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An April Fool’s Afterschool Snack Prank

April 1, 2013

This has to be one of the easiest April Fool’s pranks to try on your kids today. “Chocolate Chip Cookies” Buy a container of mashed potatoes at your store’s deli counter and a can of black beans. Rinse the black beans and gently fold into the mashed potatoes to make it look the right ratio of “chocolate [...]

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Cat Video Festival (Yes, It Does Exist)

March 27, 2013

My toddler thinks there is nothing better in this world than a cat video.  I’m not sure what the inventors of YouTube were thinking when they created their glorious video sharing site; but I doubt it was that the world needed hundreds of thousands of cat videos.  They were solving a problem they didn’t even [...]

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Little League Is Slowly Killing Me

March 26, 2013

This is my son’s first year in Little League.  He’s a third grader who played one season of YMCA t-ball when he was four.  This year my spouse wanted him to join baseball.  We luckily found a team in the AA level with enough of his school friends to make baseball seem like a great [...]

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A Film Festival for the iPhone

March 19, 2013

My kids love to make movies using my iPhone.  I normally delete the videos after they’ve gone to bed… partially to free up space on the phone, but mainly becuase their “movies” are just videos of our everyday life.  Who really wants to watch a 5 minute video of me loading the dishwasher?  Besides, with [...]

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Lessons From My Grandmother

March 18, 2013

It’s hard for me to not get caught up in a guilt-induced hysteria when I think that it’s been nearly four years since I’ve seen my Grandmother.  I feel incredibly sad that my last visit to Arkansas was when my oldest son was five.  My dad and my son visited two years ago when I [...]

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Understanding Maternity Leave in California (2013 Edition)

March 11, 2013

Today marks the start of my third, and final, maternity leave.  My baby girl is due in just a couple of weeks.  With each of my babies, deciding when to start leave, how long to take leave, and when to return has proven more difficult than actually getting pregnant.  This year, with an online tutorial [...]

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Sheryl Sandberg to Speak on Leaning In at Stanford

March 5, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook, has made waves in the world of feminism with her new book out next week.  While I find the title of the book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, to be filled with patronizing and a bit condescending, I’m still planning on buying the book. Why? As a [...]

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