For Mother's Day, read about mommy "SWAT teams" invading the business world. The acronym stands for "smart women with available time," and according to a WSJ article, "it's one mother's label for all-mom teams assembled quickly through networking and staffing firms to handle crash projects. Employers get lots of voltage, cheap, while the women get a skills update and a taste of the professional challenges they miss" ("How Stay-at-Home Moms Are Filling an Executive Niche").
The Irony of Iron Man: What can we learn from an armor-encased superhero who can protect others, but can't save himself? And what does his story say about finding strength in weakness?
Find Something That Makes You Both Laugh
Laughter bonds people. It's good medicine for your soul - and for your marriage, too.
Gas to Hit $7 a Gallon: And who’s to blame?
“When researchers ask parents what they enjoy, it turns out that they prefer almost anything to looking after their children. Eating, shopping, exercising, cooking, praying and watching television were all rated more pleasurable than watching the [kids]. . . . Despite this, American parents are much more likely to be happy than non-parents. This is for two reasons, argues [Albert] Brooks, an economist at Syracuse University [and author of the new book, Gross National Happiness]. Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term. And the kind of people who are happy are also more likely to have children. Which leads on to Mr Brooks's most controversial finding: in America, conservatives are happier than liberals.” (“The Joys of Parenting” in The Economist)
“A trio of Baylor senior football players -- cornerback Josh Bell (Dallas, Texas), linebacker Nick Moore (Arlington, Texas) and deep snapper Jonathan Weeks (Glendale, Ariz. )-- have signed free agent contacts with NFL teams.” (story)
Workouts you can download to your iPod from Men’s Health.
If at First You Don't Succeed, You're in Excellent Company
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