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Archive for January 2010
In defense of (good enough) food
Michael Pollan has been making the talk show rounds discussing his new book, Food Rules. I’ve been meaning to write about him for a while. I read the brilliant Omnivore’s Dilemma last summer, and then downloaded In Defense of Food to my Kindle while I was in the hospital waiting to be induced (then the Pitocin kicked in and let’s just say I stopped reading… read more »
Equally Shared Parenting
Over the past few years, Marc and Amy Vachon have found themselves in the public eye for what, judging by some of the comments on blog posts about them, seems like a pretty controversial and non-traditional lifestyle. Nope — nothing you need to cover the kids’ ears for. What’s gotten the Vachons a cover story in the New York Times magazine,… read more »
The next feminist issue is sleep…or not
Over at The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington and Cindi Leive (Glamour’s editor-in-chief) have taken up a new cause for the new year: getting American women to sleep more.
“Americans are increasingly sleep-deprived,” they write, “and the sleepiest people are, you guessed it, women. Single working women and working moms wi… read more »
What are we doing this weekend?
While weekdays often pass in a blur of rushing from one thing to the next, weekends require a different mindset. It’s easy to lose track of time and watch these precious hours disappear into things you didn’t mean to do — watching a lot of TV, running errands, doing housework, etc.
In 168 Hours, I recommend instituting a family meeting at so… read more »
