Burning Bird led the way to a much needed to read article and now, Wired Woman is my hero, too. Because of how society perceives women and their place in the world, I'm constantly putting myself through h - e - double hockey sticks (a tribute to the '50s).

I gave up on trying to be super woman when kid #2 was born and begged my company to let me work part-time. Next time you see a mother who works full-time and does most of the stuff at home, tell her how much you admire her. Motherhood (both full-time stay home and full-time employee) is harder than being CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Exaggeration? I think not.

Picture this: your child is constantly jumping on things, getting into the breakables cabinet even though you've pushed everything far back or on the top shelf, coloring the carpet, and [fill in the blank with something that really annoys you]. You repeatedly tell the child to stop to no avail. You follow through on discipline strategies and the child continues. You're tired, you have a headache and can't even get to the cabinet to get medicine.

A CEO can fire an employee acting like a child or delegate counseling to someone else. A mother is a mother always and there is no going home away from “work” and getting rid of the day's stresses.

Movies continue to bring together the older, suave guy with the way-younger, beautiful, skinny girl. TV shows show women who look anorexic whereas men have a few pounds and no one says a word. If a woman loses weight and is interviewed in an article, there is always a reference to her weight loss.

Stop, Meryl. It's too easy to rant about this. But I will say one more thing. There ARE men out there who do their part. I am married to one and I do my best to show appreciation each day.

4:33:25 PM