Archive for March, 2010

In the run-up to the book launch on May 27, I am blogging more frequently over at My168hours.com. Some recent headlines:

Real Simple and the Myth of the Time Crunch: One of my favorite magazines, Real Simple, devotes the entire April issue to the issue of time. But are we really as starved for time as the pages claim?

The Femivore’s Dilemma: What’s up with the sudden interest in raising chickens? Just remember: you’ll make more progress saving the world in your 168 hours by, say, running a utility than you will with your garden.

How Much Time Do You Spend Washing Dishes? I’ll bet big bucks that it’s less than you think, and that has ramifications for the whole discipline of figuring out how people spend their time.

The Core Competency Dad: The Economist has new figures showing that men are increasingly chucking their “housework” for spending time with their kids.

My column on the return of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-sitters Club books ran on the Taste page in today’s Wall Street Journal as “How to Pay for Your Own Uggs.” I devoured these books when I was about 10 years old, as did basically every other girl born between 1976 and 1983. Their return can teach two useful lessons: first, that teen girls are capable of far more responsibility than most of us think, and second, that when you can’t get a job, you can make your own. The latter is good to know whether you’re 13 or 33!

It was a weekend of much literary criticism. City Journal posted my review of Dan Pink’s Drive on Friday, and my round-up of three marriage related books, including Laurie Abraham’s The Husbands and Wives Club, and Stacy Morrison’s Falling Apart in One Piece, ran in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday under the headline When the Honeymoon is Over.