My dear friend whose wife is pregnant just mentioned that her employer, the state of Massachusetts, only offers two weeks for maternity leave.

Two weeks? Two fucking weeks?

Meanwhile, i n the UK, they just upped maternity leave by law to a year (if desired.) A year. And my friend gets TWO WEEKS?

I'm appalled and thoroughly baffled that this is even ( Read more... )

I'm in San Francisco visiting one of my best friends, John. He and his girlfriend just got a new Australian Shepherd, currently 11 weeks old, which they named Moxie Crimefighter.* She is, without a doubt, the Cutest Dog Ever.

Presenting..... Moxie Crimefighter!!!

(Click here to see the video - I can't find the code to embed it.)

I'm stealing her when ( Read more... )

For those of you who knew Stephen Goddard, my ex-husband, I have terrible news - his daughter Kaylie, who just turned one year old, has died.

http://kaylieelizabeth.blog.com/1705957/

My heart breaks for him and Adair. I can not begin to imagine the pain they must be going through right now.

Hug your loved ones tightly.
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Add to my post on Sunday (the one about pimping some of my LJ friends) the inimitable
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Congratulations to Jin Hee and
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Many of you know my ex-husband (or "beta" husband as I prefer to say), Stephen. For those of you who don't, he's a good person - we just weren't right for each other in the long term, and luckily we both found our perfect partners a few years after we split up.

Stephen has two beautiful girls, but sadly his youngest (just born last April) has been ( Read more... )

It's almost 1 AM, and here I sit in my hotel room, having wolfed down a cup of chili around midnight (after getting back to my room close to 11 PM), still with lots of work to do. But I'm stopping, because I have a long day tomorrow here at my program.

As stressed as I am with the overload of work I have going on (my current program here in Philly, ( Read more... )

HAPPY THIRD ANNIVERSARY

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I feel like hell. Why? Because I went out with two girlfriends last night to Twist at Phipps, and drank mojitos and nibbled some sushi for over 4 hours. Now bear in mind that I only had 3 (very large) mojitos - but also bear in mind that I'm a total lightweight. I drank lots of water in between drinks, but it doesn't matter - I woke up with a ( Read more... )