Editor’s Note: Here we go again with pollsters trying to categorize us. But now we have the forum to knock them down. Good post, Nancy. -Elisa With the November election growing ever closer, the pundits are busy classifying us mothers into categories. The newest label is “mortgage mom.” These are moms whose “sense of well-being […] Continue reading →

Continuing the back-to-school means back-to-school-lunches theme, The New Yorker this week publishes a profile (not available on-line) of Ann Cooper, the new executive chef of Berkeley Public Schools, whose $95,000-a-year salary is being paid by Alice Water’s Chez Panisse Foundation. Cooper, writes the New Yorker’s Burkhard Bilger, a former chef to celebrities and the wealthy, […] Continue reading →