Member Articles
By Jeannie MacDonald
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They say step-mothering is a thankless task.
They are wrong.
Maybe I just have an amazing kid. Maybe what I lacked in uterine contractions I gained…
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I've never drunk the Martha Stewart Kool-Aid. My house is not immaculate. I don’t own a glue gun. I also don’t scrapbook, garden or knit.
Alright,…
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Warning. What I am about to say may shock, horrify, and yes, even repulse you. It may run contrary to one of your core beliefs. It may seem like an…
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So my brain’s Annoyance Tolerator Chip crashed the other day. Since then, I’ve found myself irritated with…let’s see…just…
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Recently, I Googled “holidays” and was surprised to learn how many there are. We all know about Presidents’ Day, the 4th of July,…
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War, famine and toe fungus are scary. Scarier still are the lies we tell ourselves.Take our national obesity problem. Fast-food outlets pioneered the…
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Indiana Jones and that Bedouin shepherd who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls have nothing on me. I recently led an archeological dig that rivals anything…
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If you ask me, instant gratification is vastly overrated.Oh, sure. Scoring a right-in-front parking space is swell. Being first in line when a supermarket…
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I often wonder what alien species would think if they attended a baby shower. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for fertility and dessert buffets.…
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My parents have been married for 54 years.Yes, you read that right. Not 54 months, which would be considered an eternity in a culture that invented the…
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Is it just me, or are more and more Americans behaving badly?Stars going into rehab. Politicians caught in scandals. Cell phones blaring offensive ringtones…
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My friend Pat Carr is a smart, talented guy (Harvard MBA, president of his company). He’s also got a knack for describing ordinary things in a funny…
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was right: The rich are different from you and me.When the wealthy need to trim expenses, they mothball one of the jets in their private…
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I love dining out. Everything about it is pleasurable.Somebody else buys and schleps the food to the kitchen. Somebody else’s eyes water chopping…
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What are you afraid of?I mean, aside from the usual suspects, like terrorism and cellulite?Fortunately, I’m not held hostage by a fear of chopsticks…
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As professional mothers, we like to think of ourselves as nurturing parents, accomplished career women, and (need I say?) totally babelicious. But the…
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My husband, John, works in high-tech start-ups, which means we know from layoffs. If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that your time…
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I think it’s time we all started using “the good china” on March 4th or June 27th, not just on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Sure, it makes…
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Remember dinner parties? Where you’d serve food, guests would eat what was put in front of them, and everybody went home happy? Unless you’re…
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