The joy of field trips
In Their Own Sweet Time, I have a list of 10 ways parents can enjoy kid time more. One of them is to chaperone kid …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Working after the kids go to bed? Be sure to do this one important thing.
My take-away from my Fast Company essay on working after the kids going to bed being shared 25,000 times: There are a lot of us …Read More
Unconventional Thanksgiving leftovers
We celebrated Thanksgiving with just the 5 of us. I’d been shopping at Costco, though, so we had a lot of food, including a 15 …Read More
Sonnet written upon finding that the ‘blank book’ I’d been saving for the right moment was really a 2013-2014 calendar
I thought this book was naught but blank white linesI thought I had as much time as I pleasedto fill its space with all of …Read More
My own personal Turkey Trot
The Thanksgiving holiday started a wee bit early in my house. The 5- and 3-year-old were off of school Wednesday, and our nanny was driving …Read More
Holiday magic
I’ve been feeling “meh” today. I’ve reached that point of pregnancy where I’m tired of the whole thing. I am tired of being huge, of …Read More
I crossed the NaNoWriMo finish line
In late April, 2010, I ran my first (and perhaps only) marathon. It was something I had wanted to do since becoming a runner about …Read More
An atypical, yet typical, day in the life
Inspired by The SHU Box, I'm doing a day-in-the-life post. Today was not a typical day, in the sense that my 5- and 3-year-old had …Read More
The highs and the lows
Humans love stories. They tend to fit into a certain format: these three things happened, ergo I had this insight and reached this conclusion. But …Read More
How to eat ‘slim by design’ (or not) when you work at home
I recently read Brian Wansink’s Slim by Design. Wansink wrote Mindless Eating a few years ago, based on his research finding people will eat giant …Read More