For single women, admitting that you want kids when you’re still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me. – Rachel Sklar
As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I’m amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are. – Rachel Sklar
Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new. – Rachel Sklar
If you care about the news and write what you want to read – not just what you think Google search wants to read – there are people out there who want to read it. – Rachel Sklar
When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I’m doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can’t do. – Rachel Sklar
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it’s the audience that receives it – and has to get it. – Rachel Sklar
I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings! – Rachel Sklar
Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy. – Rachel Sklar
I’ve gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action. – Rachel Sklar
I am pro-choice, but I don’t consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life – there’s no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating. – Rachel Sklar
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck. – Rachel Sklar
I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well. – Rachel Sklar
Oddly, a search for ‘jeggings’ in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from – wait for it – Mike Allen of ‘Politico,’ who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009. – Rachel Sklar
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it’s a total blank slate – which means it’s an astounding platform for disinformation, too. – Rachel Sklar
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm. – Rachel Sklar
Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack. – Rachel Sklar
Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run. – Rachel Sklar
My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn’t get to that week – the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I’d meant to write on a subject that wasn’t timely but was still important. – Rachel Sklar
Groupon’s model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut. – Rachel Sklar
For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values. – Rachel Sklar
Reporters do decide what is news, but they don’t invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC’s Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt. – Rachel Sklar
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing ‘Fair Use’ and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is. – Rachel Sklar
I’m a Canadian who can’t vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both – and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other. – Rachel Sklar
I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job – I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what’s going on in the world. – Rachel Sklar
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle. – Rachel Sklar
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version. – Rachel Sklar
You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it. – Rachel Sklar
There will always be women who say, ‘She doesn’t represent me.’ In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I’m doing. – Rachel Sklar