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Baby, Claire, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Relationships

I have a confession to make. Before I became a mother, I used to look down on SAHMs with housekeepers and/or nannies. "You stay at home all day," I thought to myself. "Can't you clean when the baby's sleeping? And why would you need help raising a kid?" This, like many other pre-conceived notions of motherhood, was thrown out the window as soon as I became a mother myself. Because being a SAHM is the hardest job I've ever had. Because I really don't know how moms with 2+ young kids do it (single moms have my utmost respect). Because, when you think about it, the nuclear family living separately in a household by itself is a fairly new concept, and for most...

Blogging, Personal

Light Weekend

May 07. 2011

Last Sunday, J's uncle passed away. I was not particularly close to him. I have never had conversations longer than a couple of minutes with him due to our language barrier. But he always had a big, genuine smile on his face whenever I greeted him. I could tell that he was proud of J on our wedding day, and that he liked and respected me as a person (the feelings were mutual). Isn't that the best that you can hope for with a person you don't see often, with whom you can barely communicate? With his wake and funeral taking place this weekend, blogging will undoubtedly be light. Mother's Day will be subdued as well. J and I will take Claire to my parent's...

Blogging, Geek, Personal, Touching, Web

Another Reason to Switch to Chrome

May 05. 2011

I understand that web publishers want to get people to click on over to their sites. I also can empathize with those who want to know more details about their traffic. But as someone who subscribes to over 1,000 sites on Google Reader, I hate, hate, HATE truncated RSS feeds with a passion. Luckily, there is an easy way around truncated feeds if you are using Google Chrome as your web browser. Just download and install the Super Google Reader extension and that's it! With just a click of a button (the "Readable" tab on the top right of the feed box), you can go from this...

Blogging, Personal

AP Article on Bin Laden’s Death

May 04. 2011

A couple of days ago, a reporter from the AP contacted me (having read my thoughts on the issue here on this blog) and asked if I would like to be interviewed for a story she was doing on America's reaction to the death of Bin Laden. Unfortunately, my comments were edited out of that article. But later that day, another AP reporter — this time, a national reporter — contacted me for the same reason. And the article was published tonight. You can see it on Yahoo! News and other internet news sites. Although Ms. Noveck made my experience a bit more dramatic than I believed it to be, I do not regret giving the interview and I am happy that my...