A Meaty Present.

CEO — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:39:02 -0800

The holidays are over, and the big controversy in my house is that I didn’t get any Hanukkah presents this year. At least, not yet.

Caroline Kennedy Qualification Question.

CEO — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:47:23 -0800

Harvard grad. Lawyer. New York Times best selling author. Multi-million-dollar fundraiser for one of the nation’s largest public school systems. Member of the boards of several non-profit organizations ranging from the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to the American Ballet Theater. Part of a three-member team which found a running mate for a presidential nominee.

My Working Mother Model.

CEO — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:19:50 -0800

I grew up with a working mother. When I was really little – before I can remember, even – she took some time off from being a English teacher to stay home with me, and then my brother. But somewhere in there she got bored, or needed the money, or both, and she took a part-time job for a while as a proofreader, and then as a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. Eventually, though, and while I was still in grade school, she went back to teaching, full time.

Golden Globe Nominations Hits and Misses.

CEO — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:56:00 -0800

I’m tempted to start this piece with some sort of play on words, using a form of the title of the film Mamma Mia! -- seeing as though this is a column about Golden Globe nominated actresses playing mothers -- but I just can’t because every time I start seriously thinking about that Meryl Streep movie I get strains of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Who Wants to be a Super Mom?

CEO — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:37:43 -0800

There is a Jewish expression that says: “God could not be there all of the time; therefore he created mothers.” Oy. I blame the Talmudic scholars for creating the original Super Mom and all of the meshugas that goes along with it.

Watch Your Mouth.

CEO — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:40:07 -0800

My husband has a lot of wonderful qualities: he’s caring, he’s thoughtful, he’s generous, he has good taste in jewelry. But he also has some, uh, not so great qualities, as well: his taste in music, his habit of putting his dirty clothes on the floor next to the hamper, his picky palate. But perhaps his worst quality – or, at least, the quality of his that offends me the most – is his mouth.

TV Parents Behaving Badly.

CEO — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:04 -0800

What is it about grossly ill-behaved men who are portrayed on
primetime TV as being crazy about their children, while the women in their
lives -- who perpetuate their own brand of maternal madness -- put up with
them because they're so gosh darned irresistible?

It's A Post-Balance World.

CEO — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:18:34 -0800

We got a Wii Fit board like, eight months ago, and after gorging myself on turkey and stuffing and pumpkin pie all weekend, I decided that I should probably take it out of the box and give it a try. I created a Mii (an avatar that’s supposed to represent me on screen while I work out) and then I selected a personal trainer.

First Granny.

CEO — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:58 -0800

I’m seriously coveting Marian Robinson. Certainly you know who Marian Robinson is, President-Elect Barack Obama’s mother-in-law who he called the “unsung hero” of his campaign,

As Serious as a Heart Attack.

CEO — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:53 -0800

No, it really wasn’t entirely the excitement of the Obama win that has kept me from putting pen to paper or sitting down to my computer with a cup of coffee and tapping out a few pithy sentences. A little more than a week before the election, my husband Richard came home from a weekend trip and promptly had a heart attack.

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