New York’s Real Wealth Producers Hungry for Paid Family Leave

Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) What a winter of discontent for New York’s parents. Strep, sub-zero temps, tantrums. Then Andrew Cuomo declared there was “little” appetite for paid family leave. The governor may be a glutton for women’s equality. Still, there’s only so much equalizing one can do. He had …

Super Bowl XLIX: Seahawks Bring Sea Change for Families

I’m the last person to indulge in Monday-morning quarterbacking.  I hate football.  My proto-hipster father, author of a cult classic, The Hiptionary, referred to America’s national pastime as a “monster jam.” So, no, I didn’t watch the game—although my husband and stepdaughter settled down with their nachos in her new …