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Nineteen Years Is a Long Time—How Sonia Came Into and Stayed in Our Lives

By Linda | August 9, 2010

It was 1992. All was well in the Greenfield household. Aline and Robin did a super job of making sure everyone was well cared for on the home front.
But, as the old saying goes, the only constant thing in life is change. So we knew that new arrangements would have to be [...]

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Finding Help When You Need It Most, Part 1

By Linda | August 2, 2010

Finding the right person to help care for your family takes a lot of time and a little bit of luck. Keep an open mind. In large cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, agencies may be a good first step. You must be careful. Some may charge a high [...]

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Creating a Family Care Giver: How We Did It

By Linda | July 26, 2010

Remember Jane and Michael Banks, of Mary Poppins fame? They hopefully sing to their parents their version of a perfect British nanny. “If you want this choice position, have a cheery disposition….play games, all sorts.” Contrast their hopes with the realities of their mother’s busy schedule fighting for women’s rights while staunchly [...]

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Family Care for the Busy Woman

By Linda | July 21, 2010

“How do you do it all?” That is the most common question I get from family, friends, students, residents and other random people who want to know how to fit in a busy career, raising three children, having a home to enjoy, a spouse to beat up on, and some time for myself. [...]

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Affordable Childcare Is Not Enough

By Linda | July 19, 2010

Any discussion about working women always includes the mantra, “If only we had affordable child care.” Affordable child care is necessary, but it is not nearly enough to allow women and men to function optimally at home and at work. By putting this issue front and center, we are unable to imagine (and [...]

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The Zen of Flexibility Part 2: Family Care–A New Concept for the Working Woman

By Linda | July 15, 2010

Flexibility is a learned habit. First, it takes courage to break out of rigid societal and personal expectations and become more flexible in your role as “headmistress” of a busy family. Second, it requires insight and then careful planning so that you (and the people you love) feel comfortable, cared for, safe and [...]

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The Zen of Flexibility—Transform Your Life and Your Work

By Linda | July 13, 2010

It’s time to turn yourself inward and find the flexibility you need to integrate all aspects of your life. And to do it, you are going to need lots of help.
What kind of help? That depends on what you are doing. Since I have been writing about the career and decisions of the [...]

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On being a trophy wife

By Linda | May 24, 2010

What image do you have when you hear the words “trophy wife”? Young, tall, beautiful, usually blond woman bedecked in diamonds and gold, smiling adoringly at her usually more mature (a/k/a older and graying if not visiting his colorist regularly) husband? The wife, with all of her strengths as a status symbol for [...]

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A Day of Rage—Nothing New In Jerusalem

By Linda | March 17, 2010

Travel to Israel is never dull. Life is political and the political is life. And nowhere is this truer than in Jerusalem. For thousands of years, since King David first conquered this city and made it the capital of the people of Israel, Jerusalem touches one’s soul like no other city.
A small [...]

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A Change of Place, A Change of Pace

By Linda | March 16, 2010

As we exited Ben Gurion Airport last evening, the sweet scent of the orange blossom trees was the first of the senses to reawaken after a more than seven year absence from Israel. The recent heavy rainy season had left the land green and lush. The barren land, I remembered from my first [...]

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