Health

In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal - When Ambitions and Reality Collide - writer Rachel Emma Silverman describes the many accommodations she has made in her career to spend more time with her family:

The Do Diet: With office functions, cocktail dates and family get-togethers, it's the most wonderful time of the year - for stretchy pants. But a little holiday cheer doesn't have to mean taking a hit on the scale. Here's how to keep your indulgences - and your waistline - in merry measure

Music’s a natural mood-booster (or mood-downer, depending on what you’re playing), wouldn’t you agree? And if you hit shuffle on my iPod, here’s a happy list of tunes that might come up.

We spend so much time and energy trying to guess what's going on in someone else's head, and we often jump to the worst conclusions. I have a habit of doing this everywhere in my life - from friends and family to work associates - and it definitely highlights some of my more neurotic tendencies.

I still remember that early winter day six years ago. I was waiting at a red light with my then-seven-week-old in the backseat—sleeping maybe? Crying likely?—and I spotted these girls.