child care

From the NYT

“Imagine schools that are open all day and offer after-school and evening recreational activities, child care and preschool, tutoring and homework assistance,” the speech reads. “Schools that include dental, medical and counseling clinics.”

Tax laws often seem like they’re made by the wrong people. Instead of tax professionals writing tax laws, politicians are in charge. And sometimes it gets worse than that, such as with the child and dependent care credit:

If this isn’t the darndest thing I’ve seen [and hoping my good friend Roxanne is reading] about a “circulating baby” named Mabel. 

"I can't have a baby! I have a 12:30 lunch meeting!"

That's Diane Keaton in Baby Boom, a movie that profoundly impacted my view of working motherhood and the myth of "having it all."

Did I say having it all was a myth? I think it depends on what exactly constitutes "all". That is another post.

An e-mail making the rounds complains that persons who are not American citizens and do not pay taxes are eligible for federal benefits not available to tax-paying citizens. Snopes has the details. Here is a taste:

One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn’t want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department a

I’m jumping in on the blog recapping that so many seem to be doing with a look back at their statistics for the previous year. So, here’s a look back at Trying to Follow 2007 a number of different ways.

I wrote 379 Blog Posts, viewed by over 50,000 visitors who spent an average of 1:30 visiting about 2 pages at Trying to Follow.