(This is the text of a speech Jill and I wrote for her to deliver at an Austin Women’s Blogging event.)

Jill

I did some career counseling with my son the other day. I think it went pretty well. He’s four years old… almost five… and frankly I think it’s about time he started to take this whole “responsibility” thing seriously.

No, but it went down like this.  We were at one of our favorite burger places, my husband was there, the kid… really just into his food at first but at one point he got interested in how the trash was taken care of.  He wanted to know how the trash can worked, and if they took it out the front, and who was responsible for it. Read more