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The Work/Life Balancing Act

• Miami's top chef, Michelle Bernstein, balances work and a new baby

  (photo by Taimy Alvarez/Staff photographer Sun-Sentinel)

  Michelle Bernstein, owner of three of Miami's most-popular restaurants admits she is trepidly navigating motherhood, learning both about work life balance and humility.

  Michelle and her husband David Martinez welcomed the arrival of Zachary Gray Martinez last September. Her little bundle of loved suffered from colic [...]

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• Summer means relaxing. So why are we so busy planning?

  
  I feel the heat on my skin when I go outside and know I should be at beach, taking long walks or figuring out some other way to kick back this summer. But so far, I'm in full gear. And, all around me, people are making plans and asking about [...]

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• When motherhood hits a turning point

  
  

  Here I am, sitting at my computer, relaxed. The daily chaos of juggling kids school schedules, their activities, and writing deadlines has come to a temporary lull. My kids are at summer camp ALL DAY, they have no evening activities, and I have plenty of writing time.

  I am breathing a huge [...]

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• Father's Day lessons: Do working fathers get enough respect?

  
  (Above: Jameson Mercier and his two daughters)

  Do dads get short shrift at work? When it comes to scooting out early to pick a kid up from summer camp or day care, are moms more likely to get accommodated? And, what about at-home dads...are they given the respect they [...]

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• Father son businesses: Two different views of work life balance

  Do you have the same work ethic as your parents? What would they say if you asked them that question?

  As the founder of A.D.A. Engineering in Miami, Alberto Argudin has always put in long hours. Tweleve years ago, his son joined the firm and now oversees construction management. Alberto doesn't how [...]

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• Robin Roberts' setback shows work life balance is a matter of attitude

  (Robin Roberts (C) gives a thumbs up as she discusses her medical condition with Diane Sawyer (L) and Sally Ann Roberts on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' program in this handout photo released June 11, 2012.)Credit: Reuters/Ida Mae Astute/ABC/Handout

   

  What would you do if you were just about to score a [...]

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• Robin Roberts' setback shows work life balance is a matter of attitude

   

   

  What would you do if you were just about to score a big career coup and learned your health was in jeopardy? Would you forget all about work and just concentrate on your health?

  The very day she was about to score a big career coup, an interview with President Obama, Good [...]

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• Summer is here and working parents are panicked

  I survived another school year!! Wahoo!

  The last few weeks of the school year seemed like an endurance test. Between awards ceremonies, graduation parties and buying teacher gifts, it took all my balancing skills to juggle my workload and home responsibilities.

  Now, I'm beat and the next work life balance challenge awaits.

  Inevitably this [...]

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• Married to the job, and lovin it

  I was listening to a radio interview with Bravo's Andy Cohen when the host asked him if he was seeing anyone right now. Cohen laughed and said he just didn't have time to date. "I'm happily married to my job," he replied. 

  That made me think about work life balance [...]

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• Is workplace boredom the new stress?

  
  It used to drive me crazy to watch a co-worker playing solitaire every day on her computer.

  I wondered how she possibly had time to do it. Of course, she eventually got fired. But I'm not really sure she cared. She was a good editor, but she [...]

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