Op-eds and putting in the extra hours
I recently signed on to volunteer with the Op-Ed Project, a non-profit organization which seeks to increase the number of columns written by women. According …Read More
Yearly Archives: 2010
After the Breakthrough: Olympic Stars of Yesteryear
The New York Times magazine this weekend will apparently have interviews with former winter Olympics stars, discussing their memories of the games, and their lives …Read More
Strategic Thinking Time
Around New Year's, I spent some time identifying what would be my most important professional projects for 2010. These are the things that, if I …Read More
The Great American Soap-off (aka the laundry time-suck)
Most of the chapter titles in 168 Hours are fairly vague ("A Full Life"). But one is quite specific: Don't Do Your Own Laundry. The …Read More
Handmade is the new black
My column, "Handmade is the new black," ran in USA Today this morning. Though mostly about the rise of the craft economy, it relates, broadly …Read More
Time to run a marathon
One of the tips I learned while writing 168 Hours is to figure out exactly how long any given activity will take. Then you can …Read More
Time Makeover: Stephanie Graham
As promised, I am finally starting to load some more “time makeovers” up on this blog! The good thing about putting these online is that …Read More
Motherlode: Juggling Full-Time Work…and Bad Assumptions
I was fascinated to read a guest post at Lisa Belkin's NY Times Motherlode blog from Dr. Simi Hoque of the University of Massachusetts. Prof. …Read More
In defense of (good enough) food
Michael Pollan has been making the talk show rounds discussing his new book, Food Rules. I’ve been meaning to write about him for a while. …Read More
Equally Shared Parenting
Over the past few years, Marc and Amy Vachon have found themselves in the public eye for what, judging by some of the comments on …Read More