Women’s brains are programmed to find the perfect solution to a problem. In a shopping setting, this can be debilitating.
I’ve been on a mission to find my 3-year-old daughter the perfect set of bedroom furniture. My daughter has outgrown her tiny crib-sized bed like a pair of ill-fitting feetie pajamas, she’s busting out at the [...]

My extended family does a white elephant gift exchange every year. The men and women buy gender-specific gifts to participate. We laugh and steal the best gifts, but mostly hope that we end up with a gift card so we can buy what we really want. This year, my mother suggested we “go green” [...]

Is the agency side or client side more stressful? I think this would be a hard-fought debate by women from both sides. Most likely, it would end in a draw, simply because we all create our more hours of stress and anxiety than our jobs really deserve by obsessing day in and out.
Recently, we took [...]

Over the past 15 years, I’ve noticed that work creeps into your life in strange ways, especially when you’re stressed out and obsessing about office problems. Having your co-workers pop up randomly in dreams seems to be the most common syndrome around here, although admitting that can lead to the question, “Just how often ARE [...]

A full-time job, a house, a husband, a daughter and multiple commitments to family and friends have made it impossible for me to get everything done. This includes the ability to stock up on household goods. Every woman I know, regardless of her situation, has this problem. But, there’s a bright side.
Time starvation has turned [...]

This year, I decided to do all of my Christmas shopping online. My 8-month-old daughter makes it a bit hard to get to the mall for any extended period of time.
I was surprised at how quickly I found exactly what I wanted. I’ll be done in no time, I thought. I was close to hitting [...]