When people talk about work-life balance they are usually talking about how much time a woman spends working on her career versus spending time with her family. One imagines a two-sided scale with family on one side and job on the other. If you don't have enough time for one side you move it from … Continue reading Work-life balance is an over-simplification
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People love good photographs. The ones where everyone's hair looks great and so do their smiles. The ones with the artistic composition. People love good photographs. They share them online. They make them profile pictures and computer wallpaper. They may even print them and frame them or use them as Christmas cards. But what about … Continue reading In defense of bad photographs
The first time I was stung by jellyfish I realized it almost immediately. I was vacationing on Edisto Island, South Carolina with some friends. Cathy and I were in the water when I felt something hit and partially wrap around my thighs. I understand that being in the ocean means dealing with things in the … Continue reading I got stung by jellyfish and didn’t realize for 4 days
ChicagoNow bloggers were assigned other ChicagoNow bloggers to interview. I got Alisa Jordan of No Bags to Check, which is generally a travel blog except for this month when she is promoting Alzheimer's awareness. I'm not sure how our community manager decided which blogger should interview whom. Perhaps he assigned Alisa to me because he … Continue reading Q&A with a ChicagoNow blogger: Alisa Jordan of No Bags to Check
When people talk about "women in tech" they usually mean female engineers or women who have risen to positions of executive leadership, but there are a lot of women in tech who are neither of those things. Analysts and project managers are to "women in tech" what stay at home moms are to the general feminist … Continue reading Not engineers or executives: The other women in tech