Becoming a parent means there are new demands on our time and for many of us, we feel strangely disloyal to our jobs after we have kids. And yet, many of us become better employees. So why do mothers make only 68% of what men earn? And forgetting about the disgraceful pay inequity for a moment, why is it that we feel so horribly guilty when we skulk out of the office at 4:30 to pick up our kids from daycare? Could these two things (guilt and pay inequity) be related?

I love Michelle Obama's new initiative Apps for Healthy Kids ! What a great savvy way to approach the obesity epidemic in kids. I love the whole go to the people project....except for one rather glaring glitch, the esteemed 9 expert judge panel is 85% men. Just one woman on the team. Now if I was...

...At some point, of course, I realized I wasn’t happy. I was trapped. I had money, but not time. It was like being surrounded by food, and dying of thirst. It turns out that there is a way out of this mess. There are people all over this country–both women and men–who have made a conscious decision to value their time more than their money. Against the formidable current of popular culture, they have decided that this may be the only life they will ever have, and they’re going to live it fully.

When Ashley's son started going to child care, he started bringing home more than macaroni art and cute little scribble pictures. He also brought home colds, the flu, pink eye, and a weird unidentifiable rash -- all things that meant Ashley needed to miss work to care for him. "I didn't realize...