Before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became a politician, she was a stay-at-home mom. She ran for office only after the youngest of her five children was ready to go to college. Common knowledge. But she and two daughters were interviewed for an article in the San Francisco Chronicle today, and I just had to write [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 24, 2008
The “I work harder” contest
I just love it when a person looking back on his or her own success talks about how others just don’t know how good they have it. People like this imply that somehow, nobody else works as hard as they do, or that their struggles were unique. As if others nowadays don’t work hard enough [...]
August 17, 2008
Move this. And, oh, don’t forget the baby.
My household is gearing up to move to another house. I’ve got a whole week’s “vacation” from work, but what it really means is packing, packing, cleaning, cleaning. If you read my previous post, it’s not easy trying to fit all this in. Moving is stressful enough, but with a (now-sick) baby to take care [...]
August 9, 2008
Sold! On stress and housing and fitting it all in
This Cheapskate column titled “We Managed to Sell our Home and Keep our Marriage Intact” from the Wall Street Journal hit home for me — no pun intended. Columnist Neal Templin talks about the stress that selling their home put on his marriage. His wife wanted to spend money to get the house sold; he [...]
August 5, 2008
It’s a juggle out there at the airport
A 4-year-old girl was left behind at a Tel Aviv airport recently as her mom, dad and four siblings rushed to catch a plane to Paris. The family had something like 18 suitcases, was rushing around and reportedly didn’t realize the girl was missing till they were informed by the pilot about an hour later. [...]
