The Purpose of the GRE Test

If, like me, you have recently completed taking (or are preparing to take) the GRE–the Graduate Record Examination–you may be asking the same question I am:  what, exactly, is the point?
ETS, the nonprofit company that creates and delivers over 50 million tests world-wide (to the tune of $150 a pop–$7.5billion ain’t a bad gross income [...]

Why Don’t School Buses Have Seatbelts?

While driving behind a school bus today, watching the apparent elementary-aged, summer-school-goers hop from one seat to the next, bopping each other on the head with fists, standing up in the aisle and, in one kid’s instance, hanging half a body out the window,  I was reminded of a question that intermittently frequents my mind, [...]

MOM SURVEY: Choices in Childbirth and Their Impact on Breastfeeding Practices

I’d like to use this blog as a forum for conducting a survey.
The survey has to do with childbirth experiences and breastfeeding experiences/breast pump usage.  The results of this survey will be made public, with the ultimate goal to place the survey results in a national parenting magazine article.  All comments will remain anaonymous in such a publication.
 Here’s [...]

Why Women Are So Passive-Aggressive

Don’t ask me why, but lately (longly) I’ve been thinking about passive aggressiveness and why it is such a pervasive “technique,” if you will, embraced by so many women in dealing with problems.   I think I’ve got a longer post coming on this topic but, for now, check out this article on Science Daily.com [...]

Twue Twitter Confession

I swore I wouldn’t do it.  I promised my husband I would not sink so low.  I railed against the trend, describing the practice of tweeting as  “idiotic,” “pathetic,” and ” a waste of time.”  And then I became (only slightly) convinced at the Desert Nights Rising Stars Writer’s Conference that, to be a modern [...]