Everyone thinks that their mom is practically invincible but my mom really is. She has survived cancer, a few strokes, and heart surgery. She buried both of her parents in the span of a year and has outlived all but two (of seven) of her brothers and sisters. She raised my brothers and me and…
Happy birthday, Mother’s Day! The holiday that you and I know as Mother’s Day turns 100 today: it was officially designated as a holiday on the second Sunday in May by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 (you can view the proclamation here). The holiday was inspired by Anna Jarvis of West Virginia. You might…
In about a week, I’ll be on stage to receive an award from the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of their “40 Under 40” for 2012. Fortunately, my seven year old daughter (one of my three great kids) will be along to help perform my “hidden talent”: I know all of the words to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…
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…
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…
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…
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) every year as…
