Family meals can be fast
Much has been written about the importance of family meals. Usually these essays assume such family meals are home-cooked (by mom, of course) family dinners, …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
The flexible work dilemma
When we talk about work, and time, the usual narrative is that everyone wants to work less. Work/life "balance" becomes a code word for reducing …Read More
Best of Both Worlds podcast: Cook once, eat all week with Cassy Joy Garcia
We have to eat, but getting dinner on the table for a family can be complicated. Everyone's tired after work and school. Someone has to …Read More
Weekend: Small moments of relaxation, Chuck E. Cheese, and thoughts on the mental load of meal planning
This wound up being a fairly full weekend. We celebrated my daughter's 8th birthday as a family on Friday night. My parents came from New …Read More
Books read in September 2019, plus Friday miscellany
I read some dense non-fiction this month; I need to find a good fall novel for October. Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild Hochschild, …Read More
Heading into those year-end reviews…
Every year around this time, I read articles about how companies are moving away from annual performance reviews. Yet a lot of places still do …Read More
Best of Both Worlds podcast: Pregnancy and babies (again!)
So after my pregnancy announcement last week, Sarah and I decided to do a full-on baby episode. I talk about expecting #5, and how I …Read More
Should I do NaNoWriMo? 2019 thoughts
I'm up early, getting some work done before going for a run, and apparently this morning thing is making me ambitious. Every year around this …Read More
Friday miscellany, one day late: Getting stuck at O’Hare…
I first started writing this in a hotel cafe in downtown Chicago, where I flew to give a speech Friday. The flight in was fairly …Read More
