HawaiiMoms.com is an online meetings place where you can enter discussions with other moms. Here's what Sandysue wrote about being a working mom in our Working forum: While I enjoyed my three-month maternity leaves for each child, I was equally glad to return to work outside the home. 24/7 childcare would drive me crazy, and by Sunday night I look forward to returning to work. ... While being a mom is central to who I am, I have been a working professional for a lot longer, and it's also important to me.

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CALLING ALL COMICS: OPEN-MIKE COMPETITION TO BE HELD AT BAYFEST

Have what it takes to be the next Augie T or Stan Egi? This year's Lex Brodie's BayFest at Marine Corps Base Hawaii could be your chance to perform in front of a crowd of thousands. The Sharkey's Comedy Club Open Mic Competition will be held July 1 on the main stage (before country legend Alan Jackson). Sharkey's in 'Aiea is hosting weekly contest preliminaries. Twenty-five finalists will get to duke it out at BayFest for cash and prizes, including a comedy class. Contact Sharkey's at 531-HAHA (4242). BayFest is scheduled from June 29 to July 1 and is open to the public; tickets at www.bayfesthawaii.com.

— Loren Moreno

FINAL WORD

"If at the end of the last century someone had said to me, 'You have a shot at the work being able to communicate to a broad base of people,' I would have said, 'A long shot.' "

Richard Serra | the 67-year-old artist, whose mammoth sculptures have been compared to temples and who has a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, in Time magazine