Snow days, time management, and chess
When our school district calls a snow day, the phone no longer rings at 5:30 a.m. Apparently they got a lot of complaints about the …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Please help me with the Mosaic project!
It's time for another public service announcement about the Mosaic Project. My next book looks at the lives of professional women with kids. I am …Read More
Doing what you love is not always a completely awful financial strategy
There’s been a lot written lately about the danger of doing what you love (“DWYL”). Miya Tokumitsu floated the anti-DWYL thesis in Slate in January, …Read More
My not-so-positive time management trait
Yesterday, two events had me mulling my own time management skills. 1. Fast Company published a piece I wrote on “How To Manufacture More Time …Read More
A glimpse of spring, and the big kid life
We’ve had a lot of snow and ice this winter. As I’m writing this, more is headed for the Philly area. But this past weekend …Read More
Who really works from home, or not from home, as the case may be
There’s a certain narrative surrounding “telecommuting” that goes like this: moms who want a better work-life balance -- which is code for “want to work …Read More
Friday links
We've got 50 degree weather here in suburban PA today, so the snow is melting at a rapid clip. I even saw bare ground yesterday! …Read More
Seeing the whole picture: My time log analysis of a week in February
I logged my time last week, Mon Feb 10- Sun Feb 16. As I’m asking numerous other women to keep logs for the Mosaic project, …Read More
When they just don’t sleep…
As the time logs come in for Mosaic, I’m seeing a variety of family situations and time (and life) challenges. Most women get enough sleep, …Read More
Making time to read: supply vs. demand
When I ask people what they’d like to do more of with their time, “read” comes up almost as often as “exercise.” And yet many …Read More