Babble

I've more vid and verbiage to post for you as promised, but at the moment, I'm late for work. This pic was not snapped this morn, but properly conveys work & lateness. Oh, and although at a size 10, I'm no ballerina, those are not my shoes.

Beck just put out a new CD called Modern Guilt (which on first listen is pretty awesome) and in an interview with Parade magazine he discussed the role that fatherhood has on his songwriting: How has fatherhood influenced your work? Are any of the songs on this album inspired by your family? "Not...

We have ants. Claudia Schiffer works it 24/7 ( Jezebel ) Does Sunday trump Suri? ( Scanner ) Waiting is the Pitts ( Perez Hilton ) Hi Xtina, it's back to work you go ( Gossip Girls ) Ashlee Simpson for no apparent reason ( Knocked Up Celebs )

If you've got at least 20 minutes to spare and a few cups of coffee to drink, take some time to read this week's cover story in the New York Times Magazine . The subject: The fact that the birth rate in Europe is declining so drastically, particularly in places like Italy and Greece, that the...

The other day on the streets of Manhattan I saw a sign advertising Gavin Rossdale's new album . Who, you may ask, is Gavin Rossdale? You might know him by his married name: Mr. Gwen Stefani. Back in the dark days of the 1990's, Gavin was actually more famous than his now-wife; he was the lead...

I have a reality TV problem. The shows where stupid people do stupid things - like the now defunct Fear Factor - have never scratched my itch. Watching folks vomit has never been my idea of a good time. Give me a show where there are skilled people testing themselves against other skilled people, I'm...

Just when I thought I'd found a sister-in-spirit, a mom who understands how hard it is to juggle kids, jobs and life, she had to break my heart with some wonky interpretations of the data and a general inability to write a coherent sentence. I hate it when columnists let me down -- which means I'm...

A couple of days ago, I groused about the use of the word "mompreneurs." My issue with this smooshing together of two other perfectly good words is that it makes businesswomen who happen to be mothers sound like they are somehow different than entrepreneurs who are child-free and/or male. Fortunately...

My wife remembers well a lecture she once attended about how to become a law firm partner while balancing a family at home. A newly minted partner and mother was giving the talk and apparently didn't notice jaws drop and eyes go wide when she informed the assembled mass that she had to make a few...

As an experiment, three Guardian staffers brought their rugrats to the office and blogged about the experience. The result? Not much work got done. Zoe Williams, who brought 6 month old Thurston (love those British names) to the Guardian offices, points out that letting babies hang out at the workplace...