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Want to commiserate about the Monday back to work blues or get tips on scheduling playdates from your desk? This is the place to quench your thirst for all things work/life related. Watercooler's editorial host is Jennifer Sey, the VP of global marketing for Dockers. She is joined by Vicki Larson, a journalist and single mom who writes at The OMG Chronicles; Denise Berger, the global leader of the Women’s International Network (WIN) at Aon Corporation; and Kerry Rivera, a real mom from the "O.C." who is the Marketing and Advertising Manager for Toyota. |
The Super Hero Power of My Dreams.
With two young boys, super heroes are simply a part of our home. The plastic figurines cover our floors, their faces stare at me from dirty T-shirts, underwear and pajamas, and the Bat Cave (the boy’s equivalent to Barbie’s Dream House) has a prominent spot in my living room. more
School’s Out for Summer and So is Dad.
The sweet smell of Coppertone. Kids playing blissfully into the evening hours. Beach days, fun days, lazy days. I love summertime, but summertime today is definitely different than summers spent as a free-spirited youth. Now I’m a grown-up and that means work, work and more work. more
Far Away Mommy.
I am writing this on a plane from Barcelona to San Francisco. Well, I'm really on a plane from Frankfurt to San Francisco but I started the return flight from Barcelona. I was in Europe – Italy and Spain - for a week for work. more
What's in Your Network?
Who watched the Desperate Housewives recent episode in which Tom Scavo returns from a marketing job interview... dejected? When asked the reason, he explains that he was competing against one-hundred 30-year olds who "Twitter," and that he's over the hill… because he doesn't even know what "Twitter" is! more
Will You Be My Friend?
Hi. My name is Kerry Rivera. I’m a thirty-something mom of two rambunctious, wonderful boys (ages 2 and almost 5). I have a super-supportive, hunky husband. more
What a Mom Wants.
My birthday is coming up (although, honestly, I think I’ve had more than enough!) and my kids will ask me what I want. And I will answer the way I always answer, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukah (we celebrate both), Mother’s Day or some other Hallmark card holiday; “Nothing, I don’t want you to spend your money.” more
The Cure for Sick Kids.
The phone call could not have come a better time. I had just spent a wonderful weekend helping my friend celebrate her 50th birthday at Wine Country getaway, cooking for her with spouses and friends, wine tasting the next day, laughing and hot-tubbing, and then spending a cozy, intimate evening with my boyfriend. more
Pregnancy: Second Time’s a Charm?
The economy was collapsing all around us, the fate of our country hung in the balance of a critical election, and what did my husband and I decide to do? Make a baby, of course! Thanks to the blessings of the great fertility gods, we had no trouble getting knocked up for a second time right away. more
Cut Down to Size.
Where were you Stefanie Wilder-Taylor when I was wrestling infants into the nursing hold on the bathroom floor, reeling in boundless and unfathomable shame for not being woman enough to flood their little bodies with the mommy produced, golden panacea … breast milk? more
Can't Spare a Square
Seinfeld, features an episode called The Stall, wherein Elaine asks a woman next to her in the bathroom to pass some toilet paper. Do you remember it? All you can see on the screen are the stalls and their feet. The woman guardedly replies, “no, I’m sorry. I can’t spare it. There is not enough to spare.” more