Working from home. In the summer. With three young, school-aged children in the house. Is making me crazy. Snacks, oh the requests for snacks. Non-stop, thanks to their school year schedule which had food going into their mouths every two hours or so . . . as if they’d perish without constant calorie intake (no wonder many American kids are becoming chubby). more

After wading through dozens of news stories and blog posts comparing and contrasting potential first ladies Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain, after watching countless commentators contemplate which woman will be a major boost (or major downer) to her husband’s campaign I decided I HAD to write about this topic. more

While watching CBS’ new salacious and intriguing summer soap, “Swingtown” – set in the summer of 1976 in a Chicago suburb -- it’s hard not to get caught up in nostalgia. At least it was hard for me to stop reminiscing about my own 70s childhood while watching the show, starring Grant Show (best known as Jake from “Melrose Place”) . . . more

If it’s Sunday . . . it’s “Meet the Press” with Tim Russert.
Starting when they were very young, I began to teach my three children this phrase. (Sure, it doesn’t have the clever ring of your standard nursery rhyme, but this is what happens when your mom’s a politics and news junkie.) more

As I watched the first serious presidential contender with ovaries withdraw from the race over the weekend, I felt tremendous disappointment, not because I supported her campaign (I‘m riding on another campaign’s bandwagon), but because it’s, apparently, not quite time yet. more

*WARNING: Some minor spoilers ahead.*
‘Twas like a confection. True, most will remember it for its blinding parade of pouffy dresses and towering heels, but to me, it was like consuming a huge, over-sized hunk of bittersweet chocolate. more

As Drs. Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd celebrated the beginning of their life together as a committed couple (seriously) while bathed in flickering candlelight in the Grey’s Anatomy season finale, Dr. Miranda Bailey, who this season became estranged from her husband due to her work-a-holic ways, professed to have seen “the bigger picture.” more

A few days ago, my editor sent me an e-mail about 37-year-old golfer extraordinaire Annika Sorenstam’s decision to step down from the world of professional golf. more

In one of the last “Grey’s Anatomy” episodes that aired before the writer’s strike, the character of Dr. Miranda Bailey had a personal crisis. Under fire from her Seattle Grace colleagues for being off her game since having a baby, Bailey had worked hard to prove to everyone that becoming a mom hadn’t changed her tough-as-nails approach to surgery and medicine. Despite her efforts, she was initially denied the position of chief resident after her boss explained that he was simply trying to spare her personal life from the same kind of havoc he’d experienced when he chose work over his wife, and she left him. more

As we recover from the overly saccharine frilliness that surrounds Mother’s Day – where everyone who has a living mother supposedly tells her how much her sacrifice (of her body, her time, her sanity and her original hair color) meant to him or her, we revert back to the usual state of affairs when it comes to the media’s discussion of modern parenting . . . the one in which the media delights in panicking parents -- about the impact of their every move and how they’re likely negatively affecting their children -- and telling them that they suck as role models, and then giving them marching orders from a cadre of “experts” on how exactly they can do better at this child-rearing thing. more