Well, the New Year is here! As I sit in a sunny, warm airport on the West Coast waiting to return to the cold weather, I can't help but be thankful for all the support PunditMom readers showed me in 2009 and also freak out a bit about all the work that is coming down [...]
So, I'm really enjoying the beautiful new look that my friends at LEAP Design made just for me! But in case you hadn't noticed, I've got a new url too! Which, as you probably know, means that all that Google-y tracking stuff gets all off kilter. So the next time you have a chance, if [...]
Sarah Palin got dissed by fellow Republicans at a recent RNC fundraiser. Meghan McCain takes heat for not toeing the GOP party line on gay marriage and for criticizing Ann Coulter. And while Sonia Sotomayor isn't a Republican, she's hardly the most liberal judge out there and is being attacked as if she was the [...]
Welcome to this week's edition of Mother's of Intention! Instead of having a guest post, my guest Mother of Intention is someone I interviewed recently about the fight against global poverty.So many of us are trying to find ways to make a difference in our communities, sometimes politically and other times for social issues. We [...]
I know I'll never be able to tear myself away from politics and writing about issues that are important to me and lots of other women I know, but I've taken a very difficult vow to abstain from something else I love almost as much as the talking head shows and the world of political [...]
Yup, it's summertime.
"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."That's what Supreme Court nominee and federal court judge Sonia Sotomayor has said in the past about how individual experience comes into play when deciding cases and looking at the law.Many conservatives are afraid of that approach and are going to try to convince America that [...]
Welcome to this week's Mothers of Intention post-Memorial Day edition! There are so many different ways mothers are trying to change the world and I'm honored that Jen Lemen, who is about to set off on an amazing photographic world journey, Picture Hope, has allowed me to cross-post her essay The Meaning of Hope. Whenever [...]
I've been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time. It's not that there's anything in particular going on. Of course, PunditGirl's social calendar is full so no one is going to be relaxing too much, but sometimes it's just nice to know there's a little extra time in the weekend -- especially for [...]
It's Monday, so that means it's time for this week's Mothers of Intention post. I'm so excited that a blogger I truly admire, Isabel Kallman of Alpha Mom fame, is allowing me to cross-post today's installment about a new book called The Unhealthy Truth, by Robyn O'Brien. After reading O'Brien's book, Isabel gave voice to [...]
It's no secret that I love to take pictures and that I'm totally in love with my camera and Eye-Fi (no, they have NOT paid me to say that, but we could talk)!So, I figured it was time to learn a little but about all the bells and whistles on this fancy-schmancy camera, so I [...]
We don't need any more studies, discussions or navel-gazing about whether things need to change for working parents, especially working moms, when it comes to sick leave, flex-time or child care. Parents are struggling to manage family obligations and keep their employers happy. But corporate America still seems to think that whether and how to [...]
Welcome to this week's edition of Mother's of Intention! Today, my lovely guest poster is Tracee from The Girl's Revolution! I love Tracee's blog because we share something in common -- "tween" daughters who are facing the dreaded body image issues and we agree that sometimes (OK, more than sometimes) the media crosses a line [...]
And I'm not just talking about politics or the Beltway (well, that NEVER moves fast!)Now I'm all dizzy!Photo by PunditMom
What's more important -- whether FLOTUS Michelle Obama spends time with Congressional wives at a food bank to help feed the homeless or that she decided to break out her designer sneaks for the occasion?The media have decided the real story was all about Michelle's pricey shoes, not that she managed to get over 100 [...]
This week's Mother of Intention is Christina from Blog Antagonist. If you don't know her blog, you should. She is insightful and funny and irreverent, but don't mess with her when it comes to the needs of her kids in the school system. This post, cross-posted from her place, is one part of her family's [...]
The flowers are in bloom,the sky is clear,and the flamingos are on parade!Though it does seem a little early for plastic flamingo mating rituals!Photos by PunditMom
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has announced that he is leaving the GOP to become a Democrat, and will run as a Democrat in his upcoming re-election bid in 2010. CNN has reported that constituents who were visiting Specter on an unrelated matter in his Washington, D.C. office burst into applause when he told them about [...]
My friends David at It's Not a Lecture and Catherine at Her Bad Mother are going around the world virtually with their project, The World According to Mom. They're trying to get completely around the globe (in 80 clicks!?) through mothers who blog by asking them what they love about being mothers.Sounds like an easy [...]
Welcome to this week's edition of Mothers of Intention, PunditMom's weekly feature on what other political moms are writing about around the blogosphere. This week, my friend Gloria Feldt has given me permission to cross-post her wonderful essay on the death of actress Bea Arthur, from her blog Powered Women. I loved this post because [...]
My word of the day is "irony."I was supposed to attend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearing about updated guidance on caregiver discrimination in the workplace to live blog it for MomsRising. Then my nine-year-old daughter got sick and was home from school, so I couldn't attend. Fortunately, there are other ways to skin a [...]
It's time to resurrect my weekly feature Mothers of Intention. Many bloggers who are moms (notice I didn't use the term mommyblogger) wrote about politics and the presidential campaign here at Mothers of Intention in 2008. In trying to decide how to carry this feature forward, I decided it would be fun to feature posts [...]
Looking for me? While I'm at the Politics Online Conference, you can find me over at NPR.Call me crazy, but I'm still thinking about "square butts!"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been called a lot of things in her day, some of them not so complimentary. "Social media animal," however, probably isn't a term that Hillary ever thought would be attached to her name.She's everywhere -- Facebook, Twitter, and there's an ever-growing social media component at the State Department's website. [...]
Feel the need for a tropical getaway but don't have the funds? Well, how about watching Hillary Clinton's Digital Town Hall in the Dominican Republic, live, right here at PunditMom? You can even submit questions ahead of time for her to answer about the summit. The live stream starts at 11: 15 a.m. Eastern time [...]
Chatting about politics with new people is always fun for me, so I'm really excited to be participating in an NPR podcast at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time today on the Norm Coleman/Al Franken Senate race and other political news of the week!I'll get to chat with David Gura from Talk of the Nation, NPR Political [...]
I experienced my first Passover kind of late in life after marrying into Mr. PunditMom's family. The seders weren't long in his parents' household, but everyone knew if it was getting too late, my mother-in-law would loudly proclaim it was time to get to the end by saying, "Dayenu already!"Time to be done and get [...]
