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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 What I Couldn't Write Off This Tax Season "Deep reflection" is a state normally reserved for such occasions as planning to produce a child, tearing off the last page of your cat-a-day calendar or deciding whether that orange blazer you grabbed from the sale rack makes you look trendy or traffic cone-y. Well, let me just say that when I assembled files for my accountant last week, I didn't consider it a sentimental event; for heaven's sake, it was tax time. So it was rather unexpected when my head began registering pangs of rumination rather than basic arithmetic. Equal Pay Day Wishes From Ryan Gosling Women Set To Dominate Tribeca Film Festival Meet The 24-Year-Old Woman Who Won A Pulitzer The Worst State For Pay Inequality Are 'Thinspo' Bans Really Working? BLOG POSTS Rep. Jackie Speier: Rep. Jackie Speier: unEqual Pay Day There is cruel irony in having Equal Pay Day fall on Tax Day. Women and men share the responsibility of paying taxes, but there is no sharing when it comes to receiving equal pay for comparable work. Natasha Burton: Cohabitation-Divorce Link? I Don't Think So Some may scoff at cohabitation by calling it "playing house," demoting it from the important role it serves relationships like mine. For my boyfriend and I, there's an altar in the distance, but we're not rushing toward it. Julie Gerstenblatt: How to Get a Book Deal: Tiger Mom, Diet Mom and Me In the spirit of the "damned if you do/damned if you don't" memoir, I am determined to find my inner Tiger Mom/Diet Mom and expose her to the world. Vicki Larson: How the Holocaust Lives On for Survivor's Children My mother was just 12 when she and her family were rounded up from their home in Chernowitz, Romania, and sent to the ghetto.

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