Q&A: How one CEO's career took off when she put family first
As the founder and CEO of Hostfully, Margot Lee Schmorak says her recipe to creating work/life balance is self-care and being ruthless with her priorities.
For this mother of two (with one on the way), stepping away from her career gave her time to think expansively about what she wanted out of her personal and professional life.
Raising kids with life-threatening food allergies
Paris Jalali runs a tight ship, and not necessarily by choice. With four boys ages seven and under — two of whom have multiple food allergies — a slip-up can be life-threatening.
From color-coded cups so that drinks are not confused, to assigned seating at the dinner table to avoid cross-contamination, to a safe-for-all rotating dinner menu, she has to be on her toes.
Grandparents on raising grandchildren in today’s world
It took one look at the ultrasound of their grandchild in utero for Jan Paul and her husband Jerry to make the decision to move. She immediately began looking at properties in Denver, near where her son and daughter-in-law lived, while closing down her landscaping business. At the age of 63, she decided to leave her familiar city and comfort zone to find a new unfamiliar home near her granddaughter.
Restarting Your Career After Caring for Family
For most people who take time out of careers to raise children or care for aging parents, jumping back into the workforce takes guts and a lot of confidence — even more confidence than it might have taken to step away in the first place.
Restarting Your Career After Caring for Family
For most people who take time out of careers to raise children or care for aging parents, jumping back into the workforce takes guts and a lot of confidence — even more confidence than it might have taken to step away in the first place.
Buying a home in San Francisco? Love letter now required
In the San Francisco Bay Area, people line up to view a home for sale, a contract cycle could take less than two weeks, all cash and no contingency offers are common and bidding wars are expected.
In order to get a leg up on the competition in the million-dollar housing market, some hopeful homeowners are writing clever letters while others are making videos starring their dog and baking a batch of gluten-free muffins. Read more...
In the San Francisco Bay Area, people line up to view a home for sale, a contract cycle could take less than two weeks, all cash and no contingency offers are common and bidding wars are expected.
In order to get a leg up on the competition in the million-dollar housing market, some hopeful homeowners are writing clever letters while others are making videos starring their dog and baking a batch of gluten-free muffins. Read more...
California's drought is hurting farmers but helping environmentalists
The milk that you think is organic, isn’t. Not really. Blame the California drought, which has dried up the grass that gives farmers the right to slap the label “organic” on their meat and milk. It’s not hard to win that label from the US department of agriculture: farmers just have to make sure that their cows graze on local grass, at least four months out of the year. read more...
American Father Fights to Bring Children Home From Egypt
Colin Bower said he still remembers the shock and horror he felt during a phone call he received in August of 2009. A male caller informed him that his children had been taken to Egypt, Bower says, and that if he made any attempts to contact authorities, he would never see them again.
He was supposed to pick up his two boys, Noor and Ramsay, 9 and 7 at the time, from a scheduled visit in Boston with their mother, Mirvat El Nady, Bower says. A U.S. judge had granted him sole legal custody after the couple's divorce in 2008, and El Nady, a British and Egyptian citizen, had limited visitation. Those restrictions, Bower says, along with findings in the divorce proceedings raising doubts about her truthfulness, angered El Nady and prompted the kidnapping. read more...
Streetcorner Advocate for Women on the Day Labor Treadmill
Ligia Gualpa teaches everything from English to employment rights to cleaning ladies and factory workers in Williamsburg. As early as sunrise, Latino women trickle onto the corner of Division Street and Marcy Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, hoping that by evening they will go home with more than the change in their pockets. The women stand next to a steel fence on the corner; the vines dangling from the top offer the only refuge from the sun. On a recent morning, two men in a delivery truck stop at the intersection and yell out, “How much?” Three of the females run to the vehicle and begin to bargain; the women do not agree with the deal and walk back to their steel fence. read more...
Ligia Gualpa teaches everything from English to employment rights to cleaning ladies and factory workers in Williamsburg. As early as sunrise, Latino women trickle onto the corner of Division Street and Marcy Avenue in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, hoping that by evening they will go home with more than the change in their pockets. The women stand next to a steel fence on the corner; the vines dangling from the top offer the only refuge from the sun. On a recent morning, two men in a delivery truck stop at the intersection and yell out, “How much?” Three of the females run to the vehicle and begin to bargain; the women do not agree with the deal and walk back to their steel fence. read more...
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In the shadow of Silvio’s saint
ANGELINA JADANZA’s third-floor apartment on Via S. Chiara, San Giovanni Rotondo, a charming drive away in her green Fiat from the church of Padre Pio — an anonymous friar who shot to cult status as the “living image of Christ” — resembles a shrine. Porcelain images of Jesus, Virgin Mary and Fatima embellish every nook and cranny of her house, which has a luminous quality to it in the warm spring light. read more... |