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Now Appearing in Generation Boom
I’ve added a new publication to my client list: Generation Boom, a magazine targeted at baby boomers. What is Generation Boom? “The magazine redefining life, health and finance after forty. It’s the source for conversational, relevant articles that discuss everything from health and fitness to travel and inspirational people.” I’m enjoying my assignments so far. For October/November, I covered the basics of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and put together a useful guide on how to dump your … Read entire article »
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Circle of Life
I’ve got mental whiplash. My first 30 minutes of work today were dedicating to researching baby boomer debt and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Serious topics for mature adults. For the next hour, I brainstormed story ideas for a website for new parents by scanning posts about building baby’s vocabulary, separation anxiety, and “playdates” for 8-week-olds who lay flat on their … Read entire article »
This Just In: UNLV Articles
Bet you never thought flashy celebrity chef Guy Fieri had anything in common with a university think tank. But think again: I’ve written about both for UNLV Magazine, the official magazine of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas — not to mention many more news and feature articles about their alumni, research, faculty, and students. I’ve just added a new page … Read entire article »
The Benefits of Reading to Older Kids
Storytime is central to the bedtime routine in our house. Well, so is chaos, but eventually we get around to PJs and toothbrushes and, finally, books. We’ve been reading nightly to our kids since they caught a regular bedtime. Often when kids learn to read to themselves, parents shift away from reading together. It’s understandable — we want to encourage independent reading. Our 5-year-old doesn’t start kindergarten for two more weeks and she already reads very well. Scary well. But she still loves to have us read to her. And we love to oblige. Shared storytime doesn’t have to end in grade school. When you read to older kids, a brand-new world of benefits opens up, according … Read entire article »
Are You New Here?
The “here” here refers to our home, populated by three children who let us live there too. This is how my husband and I admonish each other for those parenting hiccups that happen when we just really should know better. Like mentioning ice cream before a single child has eaten a single whole food. These are the forehead-smacking brain farts that lead to “uh-oh” at best and chaos at worst. (My apologies to Kate&Lydia, the moms who dare to speak the truth at Rants From Mommyland, who inspired this list with their own Things I Should Know By Now.) Here are my rookie mistakes of the week: The kid stays in the shopping cart. Once the toddler has … Read entire article »
Do you lie to your doctor?
This week’s assignment is to track down the 5 Lies We Tell our Doctors. It got me thinking how going through three pregnancies and childbirth makes you a whole lot less self-conscious about going to the doctor. That’s a lot of hours waiting in paper gowns and shapeless drapes, reading two-month-old copies of magazines I never see anywhere else, like Good Housekeeping and Working Mother (which, don’t get me wrong, I love). When your exam does start, your bodily privacy ends. There you are, as exposed as Britney Spears exiting the limo, and if you’re really lucky there is probably a student shadowing your doc (or, in my case, midwife) that day, and she’s a … Read entire article »