About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 03/10/2008
Sally Owen
Sally Owen, who lives in North Carolina, holds down a fulltime job and also manages a household that, at present, includes one husband, one teenage daughter, one preteen son, three rats, four fish, one dog and a blind leopard gecko.
Blogs by Sally Owen
Of course I knew better. But when my 15-year-old daughter looked at me with sad eyes and said, "Mom, you never spend time with me anymore," I couldn't resist. I agreed to go clothes shopping with her. Well, actually, first I laughed out loud. ...read more.
When I asked my friend Anne how her transition from stay-at-home mom to fulltime work had gone, she said, "I didn't open the mail for six months! Something's got to give." It's true. When you're juggling job, kids, husband, pets and home, often something does ...read more.
A colleague at work once joked that he couldn't do something -- put up a picture in his office, I think -- because it would violate union rules. This got me thinking about union rules at home -- you know, the family equivalent of the stereotypical requirements that had their roots in reason but maintain a ...read more.
Sometimes I ask myself: How much self- improvement can one person take? I'm a sucker for all of it -- perpetually optimistic that I will be transformed like the people in those sappy "before" and "after" stories. I have done Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Feldenkrais and The Artist's Way. I have read ...read more.
It begins before we even walk in the house. "What's that smell?" my son asks. "It smells like dog poop." He is right. As I write this, it is only 6:34 p.m. And already it is one of the most annoying evenings of my life. My husband and daughter are out of town. I've been looking ...read more.
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