It doesn’t have to be dinner
Family dinner has become a Big Thing in the cultural narrative. Various surveys purport to show that kids who eat dinner with their families regularly …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Cheers for in-home date night
There comes a time, when you have 4 small children, when it feels like they completely take over your life. This weekend had elements of that. …Read More
Oh, for crying out loud…
I woke up to this: snow. On the first day of spring! Fortunately, this truly should be it. Looking at the 5-day forecast, the temperatures …Read More
Signs of spring (and a round-up)
I spotted snow drops on my run on Wednesday. They were poking up, as they often do, randomly in a patch of grass where whatever …Read More
Habits I don’t have (the good and the bad)
It’s habit week here on the blog. Yesterday, I wrote about habits I do have (the good and the bad). Today I’m looking at habits …Read More
Habits I have (the good and the bad)
It’s habits week here on the blog. Today I’m looking at the habits I do have, both the good and the bad (at least in …Read More
Upholder (with a side of Questioning)
Gretchen Rubin’s new book, Better Than Before, is out Tuesday. I read it twice and enjoyed it. The list of self-help books I’ve reread is …Read More
Have you restarted a habit you’d stopped?
I’ll be writing a lot about habits over the next week. For an upcoming article, I’m looking for examples of people who have successfully re-started …Read More
Looking at life a year ago
I use a lot of time logs in I Know How She Does It. One (it was only fair) is mine. I kept it during …Read More
Do billable hours lead to unhappiness?
I’ve spoken with groups of lawyers, and groups that include lawyers, several times. I mention the idea of keeping a time log. I point out …Read More