
Finding Balance


What It’s Really Like to be a Working Father

How Taking a Year-Long Vacation Can Boost Your Career

Meeting The Crippling Costs Of Childcare

It’s Really Ok to Have a 9-to-5 Job

Why Mindfulness Is Important to Your Well-Being – and Your Wallet

5 Ways to Create the Perfect Home Office

Inside the Secret World of Work-From-Home Moms
Not too long ago, my husband told me that he wouldn’t be able to take our kids to the sitter’s in the morning as we had planned on. He had an early work meeting scheduled, and did I…

What Can We Do About Women’s Invisible Labor?

I Had Three Jobs in Three Years

How to Balance Love and Your Career

How I Saved Thousands on Childcare

My Husband’s Unemployment Empowered Me to Launch My Career
When my second child was born, it just made sense for my career to take a backseat to my husband’s nine-to-five job.
At the time, I was working overnights as a behavioral health technician in an inpatient…

Rethink Your Vacation
You are desperate to get away. The overbearing boss, the high maintenance client, your triple-digit inbox notifications, and too many hours of CNN have you in a funk.
Or maybe it’s worse than a funk — You’ve conjured…

Should You Send Your Child to Preschool?

How to Explain a Gap on Your Resume After Baby

Returning to Work After Maternity Leave
Welcoming a new baby into your world is a wonderful, exciting, and overwhelming experience. And it can feel like almost no time has passed before you are faced with the difficult decision of whether to stay home with your baby…

Why Working Mothers Should Stop Apologizing
A few months after I gave birth to my second child, a senior (and childless) executive I admired pulled me aside at work. You’re doing a great job, she assured. “But,” she added, and looked me…

Why I Quit My Job After Maternity Leave
I had a fairly straightforward, predictable pregnancy. The hardest thing about it was the 45-minute commute to work with a growing baby sitting on my bladder. I was a state employee, a senior editor at UC Berkeley, underpaid but…

How to Manage Your Time and Conquer Busy-ness
There are 168 hours in a week and we're all so busy.
We say it all the time. "I have so much going on. I wish I had time for that." We convince our friends, our…