I've been on something of a blogging hiatus lately. I'm writing in my mommy blog, dutifully chronicling the tales of my life with kids, but I'm spending less time reading other mommy blogs.

Here in the United States we reserve the third Monday in January to honor one of our nation's greatest heroes, the late Martin Luther King, Jr. This upcoming Monday, January 15, many will have a day off work in celebration of Martin Luther King Day.

Many women put their career on hold when they have children. Some juggle working and parenting for financial--and other--reasons. As Stacy Morrison, editor-in-chief of Redbook magazine wrote in her January 2007 editor's letter: "...one of the challenges of my grown-up life is to keep feeding the part of myself that thinks big thoughts, to keep feeling wonder about who I can be, beyond a diaper-changing, runny-nose-wiping love machine."

Possible presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton appeared on the television show The View last week to discuss Christmas traditions, crafts, her view of the war in Iraq, the difficulties of raising children in today's society, and the re-release of her decade-old book It Takes a Village.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to a reporter about parenting magazines and mommyblogging. Specifically, I told her that I had stopped reading parenting magazines once I discovered the mom-centric writing in the Blogosphere. She seemed surprised at my declaration that real information--written by real parents--can be found on blogs, unlike the trite and contrived information I often found in magazines.