Ravings of a working mother - the saga begins

I'm the kind of person who doesn't jump on technology bandwagons until they're about to merge into the mainstream or slide into oblivion. Like I've been thinking about buying a cool poncho for the spring. Only now I notice on the streets of NYC that nobody's wearing them anymore. Except perhaps tourists from Dubuque. So I missed that boat.

But the more I read about blogging, the more interested I've become in creating my own blog. After all, I'm a former reporter and editor, and I think best when I'm writing. It's a kind of self-therapy for me.

What to write about, though? I'm marketing director for a professional services firm, but that's not exciting enough to wrap a blog around. Don't get me wrong -- I truly love my job and it will probably figure into a lot of my writing here. But for a blog to be interesting, in my opinion, it's got to make a visceral connection with its readers. And that's when it hit. I'm a working mother at a time when it seems working mothers like me who choose both a career and a family (bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan to borrow the famous 1970s Enjoli commercial) are an endangered species.

So I'm going to be here to hold up the fort for working mothers who choose to work, who attempt the often-precarious balance between both worlds, and who want to have it all. I don't always love my life every day. But I know that being a mother and having a career is the only choice I can sanely, securely make every day. For both me and for my little girls.

And so that's my first post in my new blog. Welcome to my world.