'Nemo' School Closures Hobble Working Parents During Snowstorm

NEW YORK -- At 4 p.m. Thursday, Claire Brown Goss, a pregnant working mother of two, learned that her town of Ashland, Mass., planned to shut down its schools on Friday in anticipation of this weekend's blizzard. Ten minutes later, she received a call from her babysitter who lives a few towns over, so she, too, had to cancel. The mother works as a part-time teacher and writer, and is losing one day's pay. "Now I have to cram some work into the 60-to-90-minute nap that my 2-year-old gives me," Br...