by Jill | Sep 15, 2015 | Moving Up
This is the second post in a series. Read part one here. As I write this, I’m sitting in a recliner eating chocolate Goldfish*. Somewhere along the way someone in product design was like “What if this was super hard to open and then the reseal sticker...
by Jill | Sep 11, 2015 | Tricky Choices
In high school, I talked a big game. I had no interest in remaining in my little town, population 657,000 and change. I was going to travel the world, have exciting adventures, and settle down in a brownstone in Toronto or New York. (I did not watch Sex and the City...
by Emily | Sep 3, 2015 | Moving Up
I’ve been researching, to my dismay, the “motherhood penalty” that women experience in the workforce. I’ll spare you the nitty-gritty details because it’s super depressing (and much has been written on it), but basically, women with children are perceived as less...
by Jill | Aug 18, 2015 | Moving On
If you are a lady and you are over eighteen, you have probably made some version of the phone call I made to Emily in the fall of 2013. “He’s been posting in the casual encounters section of Craigslist!” I wailed. Did I mention this phone call took place at 11 p.m.?...