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One person’s happiness is … musings on marriage

January 5, 2014 by Jessica 10 Comments

Hearing about someone else’s marital problems is a guilty pleasure, but only until it becomes cause for envy. In her new book, Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin shares the little things that bother her about her husband Jamie (who must be a really good sport to put up with this public laundry-airing). I liked hearing…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: depression, family, Femworking, From Left to Write, Gretchen Rubin, happiness, husband, marriage, partnership, priorities, relationships, spouse, yoga

How to do only one thing at a time: a work in progress

October 25, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m a lucky woman. I get to do a lot of cool things. This morning, I got to take my kids to their great public school, an Expeditionary Learning school, where children start every day Monday through Thursday with a morning meeting and start every Friday with a community meeting. I love that they see…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, Femworking, marriage, priorities, relationships

On blogging and living (simultaneously)

October 3, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Everything changes, but what is important never does. That is the biggest lesson I’ve learned from parenting, and I think if I work hard enough, I can apply it to blogging as well. When I was a high school English teacher, back before I became a mom, I was constantly busy reading papers, or thinking…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, Femworking, priorities, Tracy Grant, working mom, working mother, writing mother

Believing in work (and parenting): Femworking conference interview and reflections

September 30, 2013 by Jessica 4 Comments

What a delightful conversation I had last week with Kelley Sanabria, founder of Femworking, LLC and Nicole Dash, author of Tiny Steps Mommy blog and the co-chair with Kelley of the upcoming Blogger and Small Business Conference taking place in Arlington on October 26. They offered a discount for covering the conference for TheDCMoms.com, and…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: blog, blogging, business, Femworking, health, Holistic Health, small business, working mother, writing mama, writing mother

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