High School Juniors: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

In today’s Wall Street Journal is another reminder of how we are robbing our youth of their happiness while pretending to say we care about it:

Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area told researchers that they were “often or always” stressed by schoolwork, according to a series [...]

Most Men are Not Animals Like Eliot Spitzer, or David Paterson, Either

So, the vast majority of animal species aren’t monogamous, as noted in this New York Times essay today:
It’s all been done before, every snickering bit of it, and not just by powerful “risk-taking” alpha men who may or may not be enriched for the hormone testosterone. It’s been done by many other creatures, tens of [...]

What to do When You Work from Home and Your Kid’s Sick?

In this week’s Wall Street Journal, Sara Schaefer Munoz writes about the challenges of balancing work and child care when she works from home:
In my case, TV and food worked — up to point. After an hour or two, the thrill of TV was wearing thin for my daughter and I was worried she’d slip [...]

I Found My Mate as a Date in College

Although”officially” Karen and began dating the summer before I went off to college, we dated each other throughout college and she was my “steady” (a term probably unheard of on today’s college campuses. So once again, I felt like I was a Neanderthal when I read this in today’s Wall Street Journal:

College life has [...]

What are the Spending Rules in Your Household?

An interesting column in today’s Wall Street Journal by Terri Cullen reminded me yet again as to why I call Karen the “Budget Officer.” I’m a spend money to make money person, and Karen is the frugal, disciplined one when it comes to spending. (We both have agreed to continue to spend money [...]

First, Let’s Nuke All the Video Game Programmers

I’m sure that some of my younger readers may not get the allusion to Shakespeare’s play, Henry VI (Part 2).  This is probably because they’ve spent more time visiting Second Life or playing Halo 3 than reading plays and poetry in a Brit Lit course like the one I had in high school (thanks, [...]

Skipping Christmas According to Macy’s

This year, our family decided to have a low-key Christmas, rather than traveling frantically to see family or friends, and spending tons of money in the process. Our family was simply too tired from either taking or grading exams, running full-tilt since we moved in June.  We simply needed to sleep late, take [...]

Back to work I go…

An opinion piece in the NY Times today laments the fact that mothers leave the workforce and often don’t return. The author contends that companies need to find ways to keep women in the workforce.
Should we care if women leave the work force? Yes, because participation in public life allows women to use their [...]