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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. Around the Watercooler is a column written by a group of moms that work full time outside the home. Check back often to hear them dish about the trials and traumas of the work/life balance battlefield. Our column's hosts are Lauren Young and Regan McMahon. Lauren Young is an editor for BusinessWeek Magazine and a regular contributor to the BusinessWeek Working Parents Blog. Regan McMahon is the author of Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy over Youth Sports and the Deputy Book Editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. They are joined by Elizabeth Horn, a full-time nurse and author of the candid and funny blogs, Busy Mom, Career & Kids and GenBetween, Susan Wenner Jackson, who works for an advertising agency in Cincinnati and blogs about her working mom life on Working Moms Against Guilt, and Amy Smith, a full-time executive by day, poopy diaper changing/teenage problem solving mom by night and author of the blog Milk Breath and Margaritas. |
Movin’ Up, Movin’ Out: Part II
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The New Mommy War.
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Bye Bye MBA.
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Back to School, Back to Sports.
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Are You On The Mommy Track?
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Classic Mommy Morning.
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Summer Camp Crisis.
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