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The Worth of a Mother

8 May 2011

Being a mom is a tough gig. I didn’t realize how tough until I had three of my own and figured out that in addition to the stuff that I expected (cooking, cleaning, kissing boo-boos), I had to master identifying dinosaurs (by type and time period), whipping up costumes at the drop of a hat [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

9 May 2010

When I was a little kid, a few of my friends – each of whom had lessons in voice and dance – started talking about pageants. Yes, as in beauty pageants. It sounded cool and I decided that it was for me, so I insisted that my parents sign me up immediately. My mom, who [...]

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Think Pink This Mother’s Day

2 May 2010

If you were to make a list of things about me and things about my mom, you’d notice a lot of differences. She lives in the south and likes rodeos, westerns on AMC and Christmas sweaters. Me? I live up north and I like baseball games, quirky British comedies and I wear a lot of [...]

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The Value of a Mother

13 May 2007

digg_url = ‘http://www.digg.com/business_finance/The_Value_of_a_Mother/’; Years ago, in my Tax Policy class, we had a discussion about the value of intangible labor. The discussion was whether it was appropriate to quantify (and therefore, tax) the value of work brought into a home. Sound “out there”? Not really. Salary.com basically does the same thing (minus the taxing part) [...]

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