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A Tale of Two Requiems
If anyone reading this lives in New York City, I’m singing in a performance of the Brahms Requiem at Symphony Space on Friday night. Please come hear me sing!
I first learned the Requiem my senior year of college. Indeed, it was exactly 10 years ago that we started rehearsing it. I devoted a lot of time to learning the often chromatic fugues, listening to t… read more »
The Marginal Cost of Kids
Everyone knows that kids are expensive. Every year, the US Department of Agriculture publishes some high number, like $222,360, and says this is the cost to raise a child to age 18. This doesn’t even include college. No wonder, in the recession, the US birth rate has fallen quite a bit in just 2 years.
But what’s interesting is that the USDA also pu… read more »
Creating a Focused Schedule
We have a lot more free time than we think. Even very busy people have favorite TV shows, or make time for Facebook, Twitter, personal email and the like. But one reason we feel like we don’t have free time is that in our distracted society, leisure moments come in disjointed chunks.
How do we solve this problem, and seize these chunks of time for recreat… read more »
Best Places to Work… Or Not
Over at BNET this week, I take issue with the annual Fortune list of best places to work, and other such lists. A big problem? These lists are opt-in, meaning only companies that care whether they make such a list will make such a list. Others, which may still be great places to work, may not devote the manpower to filling out surveys. I also think these lists becom… read more »
My Name is Laura, And I Have Free Time
Over at the New York Times’ Motherlode blog, Lisa Belkin posted this week about “Free Time For Parents.” Apparently, over in the UK, a supermarket chain called the Co-operative polled working parents about how they spent their time, and found out that their days, on average, looked like this:
Get up … read more »
