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That's a fantastic PDF. Though it's going to take me a while to get through step 2... I fear it's too painful!

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Nice post. I have many thoughts, but here's the one to-the-point enough for the comments section: You should really try to make it to Las Vegas. ;)

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Despite having a great weekend, a better life now than before, Helen's revealing and provocative post got me thinking. It's amazing. When you get a bit stronger, how much more you realize you have to deal with. Forgiveness. What is...

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What else can I say? That's just awesome.

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If you've been here before, you know that life - especially mine - is not a fairy tail. There was no white horse, no happily ever after, no castle with roses climbing the side. What we got was messy, chaotic,...

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I've been in a funk the last couple of weeks, not planning ahead, not wanting to cook, and consequently I've had vegetables rotting in the crisper and we've been eating out too much. Thank you for the inspiration to do better (we'll see if I can follow through with it next week.)

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Thanks, Amy.

I have a .PDF someone created back in the 90's of how they fed a family of 4 for a week on, like, $25. I love that old thing - it inspires me often. Every once in a while, we'll have a week like that and it gives me a boost. But do it too often and the peanut gallery revolts with food boredom.

I really appreciate you taking the time to comment!

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This was absolutely fascinating and very educational. It obviously took a lot of time to compile. Thank you for sharing it.

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In this month's essay, When Income Envy Comes Home, Valerie Weaver-Zercher writes about the envy and outrage she felt when her author/husband earned an ordinate sum of money for a speaking engagement. Have you ever defined your own writing success...

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The Sophia Institute with Stephanie Hunt (LM columnist of The Great Green Room) Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 7:00PM The Studio, 297 East Bay Street There’s nothing like parenting to push you to the edge of joy and frustration, exhilaration...

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The editors of Dads in Academia: Male Voices In and Out of the Ivory Tower invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection of creative nonfiction essays on the rewards and challenges of being both a father and an academic. Much recent...

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I used to spend almost $400 a week on food. Now I spend less than a third of that without sacrificing our standards or giving up our indulgences. I get a lot of questions about how we lowered our costs, so I thought I'd sit down this weekend and write it all out. Here's the PDF (free, of course) of what I spent this week, with the menu plan, recipes, and how-to.

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I read several blogs to keep up with friends, but yours is the only one I read for entertainment. You have a unique style that I really enjoy. I'm working my way through it - and I'm in the middle of '08 - you've kept my attention! Keep on writing - you are still really good even if you feel stuck.

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Stories that celebrate the women who gave us everything While it’s true that each of us has “only one mother the wide world over,” there are many different ways to be a mother and many different forms and flavors...

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New from our friend and fellow mother-writer Kate Hopper: March 19 - May 21 (10 weeks) Whether you are a new mom or a veteran, whether you gave birth to or adopted your child, in this online class you'll learn...

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A lot of good old posts, I'd guess. And I'm looking forward to many more. Thanks for keeping it up!

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The following is information about an upcoming conference that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting on February 28. The conference, entitled "The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life," will take up many of the questions that...

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Almost all of the blogs I read are just from 'regular' folks. They're not usually struggling with Big, Important issues (at least, not any more than all of us are); it's the style and the tone of their writing that keeps bringing me back to them, and to you.

When I try to explain this to people in my life who aren't personal-blog readers, a lot of them don't get it, but I've recently started paralleling you all to Erma Bombeck. She wasn't in any startlingly unique life circumstances, she just had the skill and wit to write about the ...

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Well said. The interesting thing about life, even as a SAHM, is that there will be another transition, another concern, another adventure. And it's all "good material."

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Have you ever wondered, if people could watch your life like it was a television show... what your ratings would be? What kind of show would you be? Would your home be the primary set? Or the local coffee house?...

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That is so great! Congratulations, Bear!

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email class with Sage Cohen starts March 11 Have you always wanted to write a poem but didn’t know how to begin? Maybe you’re already writing poetry and want to connect with your muse more often or brush up on...

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How cool! Congratulations to your Bear!

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so exciting! (for both of you!!!)

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3+ years, sometimes driving up to an hour from his Montessori school. 2 sets of uniforms. 12 tournaments. 8 color belts. 5 color headbands. Hours of practice, and telling him to practice. Then: 3 forms without weapons, a form...

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Thank you to everyone who de-lurked, and commented this week. And to those who left such kind comments about Ian. I appreciate you, more than I can say Now, on to the last winner of the late, great Corporate Mommy...

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oh, that's so sad. such a beautiful story - what an amazing man!

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Tomorrow night, Bear tests at the Karate School. If he is successful, he will walk away a black belt. I was talking to an old friend this afternoon, and we go back. Way back. I'm talking rainbow suspenders, Mork &...

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I'm so sorry to read this. Ian sounds like a wonderful man--his family is in my prayers.

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You describe him wonderfully and he sounds like he was a great man. I'm sorry to hear the news.

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What a beautiful tribute to a kind and generous soul. My condolences to you and to Ian's family.

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Cheers, here's to you Ian. Have a pint in heaven for all of us. Condolences to you and his family. A soul like that will truly be missed.

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Working fine for me too.

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Those calls are awful. My condolences to you and to Ian's family. He sounds like an amazing man, and I'm sure that he's touched more lives in 53 years than some people do in twice that. Thank you for sharing those memories of him.

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Dearest Elizabeth, I love you and you write so beautifully. But, please? Stop making me cry!

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I'm delurking, but a day late. I can't say if any of the bells and whistles are working, but I have enjoyed reading your stuff since before you quit your job. Please keep it up!

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About 8 weeks ago, I got a call. I wrote this, and now it's time I think to share it here.... It was late spring just about 15 years ago. I headed to England with $350 in my pocket, an...

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Looks great!

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Sigh. What is about Sting? He's my Soundtrack of an Earlier Time too.

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Site looks good, although the name info for comments is not showing up for me on the post right now--but it is on the preview page.

Also, I only get a preview of your post in your RSS feed--not ideal for stealth blog reading from the office. :)

I'm glad you're back!

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Delurking! I used to read you a few years ago and am now getting caught up again. I think we might have even exchanged emails once upon a time. :)

If this comment appears, then it's working!

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Delurking! Thanks for the little shove into commenting bliss. The site looks great! I love love love reading your recent posts. It's wonderful to read your writing again. I'm not very good at any type of constructive criticism, so have kept to myself. Congrats on getting the room painted. Great color. :) :)

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I'm a dork. OK, I went back and fixed the no commenting thing. Sorry about that!

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Hope this comes up! I tried to leave comments in the other section but no luck. Hey, everything looks great.

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Love the new look! I couldn't load the comment section for the Amazon giveaway though. So I couldn't leave a comment there.

Looking forward to reading more here!

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looks oky doky to me!

Just can't get the name field etc... to show until I click preview.

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Thanks! And, so am I... good to know it looks the same for others :)

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I can see you in the RSS, and (if you can see this) comments are on - I've been traveling and am just catching up with all of the feeds at this point. I'm using firefox on a mac with 10.4.11, fwiw.

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Help! I'm starting to freak out. Are the comments working in the new layout? Is it too ugly to look at? Did I break the RSS feed??? Is it not showing up right in some browsers? Mprq?! (Not sure if...

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It's dark and windy outside. And still, surprisingly, warm. I head down the sidewalk away from the library. A bag hanging from my hand, weighed down with a few new books that I'll probably won't find the time to read....

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His room? Is painted. There are parts of the trim that hadn't been dusted, painted, washed, or even looked at closely since we moved in over 8 years ago. Well, specifically that long piece of trim about 1 foot from...

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I have spent almost my entire life north of the 40th parallel. CD grew up around the 74th, and although surrounded by a warm channel of water - I think we can all agree, that's damn cold. The farthest north...

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It's been a quiet week, here. My flu last week crawled into my sinuses (I know, yuck) and it's just fuzzled me up. But the response to last Saturday's post Into the Looking Glass was so, so awesome. It was...

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Aren't these moments the greatest??? My kids don't LOVE writing, but every once in a while they get motivated on their own, and wow.

My 9 year old didn't have money for Christmas gifts, so she made cards for all of us. She gave her big brother the best letter, telling him what a great brother he was--he actually teared up. And then threw the letter away when she said he didn't have to keep it! LOL I was so upset--I would have saved it!

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Actually even i have tried this one time...a street painter painted my potrait in 2 mins...in form of a cartoon ...was really funny...have kept it safely in my drawer...i always get a smile whenever i have a glance at that pic..

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Yesterday, I asked Bear to write a sentence using at least 2 of his 20 vocabulary words. He said he didn't want to because, he couldn't spell. I promised him that if he sounded out the words, it would be...

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Oh the wardrobe choices were AWESOME. I'm jealous.

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I love Design Her Gals, and have bought a number of their products (I'm drinking from my DHG coffee mug as we speak.) I especially love their dedication to breast cancer research. They are adding a plus-size Gal template this month, I think, which is probably based on comments like yours. They don't have a pear shaped Gal, so my avatar has a better figure than I do, not to mention a better wardrobe.

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Have you ever wondered what you would like like as a cartoon? Like that commercial, where real people get turned into animations? Well, some years back, I moonlighted as an advice columnist. Not that I'm all that or a bag...

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TheCorporateMommy dot com is available!

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This is a really great one -- indicative of why I keep coming back!

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Please join Reviews editor and former columnist (Mama in the Middle) Sybil Lockhart, who will be appearing on Bay Area television and appearing in local bookstores in February. Friday, February 6, 2009 at 3pm “View from the Bay” Channel...

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I have three kids at home and there are moments like that when you get a glimpse of who they will be as they grow into adults and part of me is sad to see my babies grow, the other part is just amazed that these little people are the future men hunting for their destiny!

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After I started this blog, I began thinking that eventually I would move over to my own domain. So I reserved the domain name "CorporateMommy dot com" through a friend. In 2007, I forgot to renew it on its expiration....

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Are you sure he's not 18?! :)

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Slow day, as we recover from colds. At one point, I was just hanging out online while Bear was watching a cartoon. "Hey, the groundhog saw his shadow," I called to him. "What does that mean again?" "Six more weeks...

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I cried!

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Literary Reflections is pleased to present our featured writing prompt response from January. We asked, "Have you ever felt torn between the demands of work and domesticity and your personal need to create and write? What mountain did you...

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A halftime show that didn't suck . . . I didn't think it could be done!

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Bruce Springsteen. Am I right, or am I right? (Rob thinks I'm really wrong.) With deep love left for James Harrison, Ben Roethlisberger, Santonio Holmes, Kurt Warner, and Larry Fitzgerald. Oh, oh, oh and the casts of Chuck, Medium, and...

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Author Heidi Raykeil writes about her latest book, Love in the Time of Colic..... Seven years ago, after the birth of my older daughter, Ramona, I suddenly found my once level libido was missing in action. Where once my husband...

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I know just what you mean. My son is 12 now, but I can remember him being oh, 7 or 8, and just the way he would say something, or look, and it would be like I could see him at 18 or 21. It's a weird feeling. All of a sudden, it feels like there's this urgency to train him, to help him become the man he needs to be, because it's going to be here before I know it.

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When I was pregnant with my first son a good friend made it a point to tell me I was not allowed to leave my baby in the car while I went to the ATM or just ran into Starbucks. I'm glad she did... Some of these "common sense" parenting rules aren't obvious to some of us (me).

That said, I definitely would have left an 8 year old alone asleep for 10 minutes, but I'm probably not the right one to consult on such matters. ;)

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As I've watched this story unravel, I have one question: Is he actually insane?

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Dammit, you made me cry! That was beautiful.

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Lovely. I feel just the same sometimes. She's still willing to give long hugs, hold my hand and tell me she loves me without hesitation but I can see the end is coming.

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I took 3 boys to lunch at the local diner today, and it freaked me out how much has changed. Two years ago, a friend and I went to the same place with these boys and it was a riot:...