Thinkingmama

It’s not the first time I’ve ever felt like I wanted or needed to be in two places at once, but this is the first time it has felt this way. I’m getting ready to go back to work after almost six months with my baby, and it’s tough. It’s emotional.
I’m excited because my new [...]

This Thinkingmama’s life — and my family’s — is changing again.
I am about to accept an offer for a full-time job that will allow me to work from home two days a week. It was a tough decision, but the opportunity is a good one, and the return of a second income will free my [...]

…it’s so hard to resist my obsession with food. And especially, my love of baked goods. I really must wonder how other stay-at-home moms stay fit. Any tips? (This is a totally frivolous and mindless post, but hey, one can’t be serious and newsworthy all the time. I mean, I need something to take my [...]

A blog post on blogher.com hits so many points about the “mommy wars” that it makes me think, once again, that everything has been said before. Everything has been written before. But I’ll try to go on. After all, no two moms have everything in common. My transition to stay-at-home motherhood will be different from [...]

File this under hmm… I never thought of that: Stay-at-home moms are to blame for the restaurant industry’s woes! According to a Wall Street Journal article, the number of working women in the U.S. is leveling off. There’s even a nifty little graphic accompanying the article that shows this trend. As more moms stay home, [...]

My friend Aileen, who’s a mother of two and a stay-at-home mom, left her job at a San Francisco brokerage five years ago and hasn’t looked back.
I got the idea for this post from my recent e-mail conversation with Aileen. In fact, I’ve started a page that will keep track of all the insensitive, tactless [...]

There’s a grabber of a headline for you. But it relates to this blog, I promise!
During the press conferences by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announcing 1. that he had let down his family because he solicited prostitutes and 2. that he was quitting as governor, his wife stood with him at the podium. Much [...]

So my first few official days of stay-at-home motherhood have been quite busy. I’ve got a freelance gig already, plus another one possibly on the way. I’m completing the paperwork for my departure from the newspaper. My husband and I are talking life insurance, home buying. And did I mention I’m taking care of the [...]

On being a mom and being a newspaper editor:

I clean up a lot of poop now, just like I did when I worked in newspapers. The difference? At least at home I don’t have to swallow the stuff. The newspaper world had a lot of bull to begin with. As it decays, the-stuff-you-have-to-put-up-with quotient [...]

In the pricey San Francisco Bay Area, it’s increasingly tough to make ends meet on one income. So most families have two working parents and all that entails. No judgments here, because some of the most well-adjusted people I know — all two of them — come from such households. But sometimes extremely busy parents [...]