Random thoughts for mid-week
I love seeing a day when my calendar is open. No calls. I can do what I want! Do you ever get open days? I …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
The Baby-sitters Club, and how we figure out what people want to read
I interviewed a few people from Macmillan last week for a piece I’m writing on crowdsourcing. One of those people was Jean Feiwel, who lists …Read More
The equivalent of ‘Lose 10lbs by July 1st!’
Long time readers know I’m a regular consumer of women’s magazines. I view them as recording life as regular people are living it -- what …Read More
Can we be friends?
I went out for a “mom’s night” dinner this week, and observed this: we talked about the kids a lot. That’s to be expected, except …Read More
Musings on my own little sweatshop
I have now officially crunched 143 logs for Mosaic: work totals, sleep totals, housework, exercise, TV, reading.... The reason this is significant is that 143 …Read More
100 bottles of wine on the wall
I’ve had a few work hard/play hard weeks of late. I’m cranking away on Mosaic, and giving a lot of speeches. We’ve also had and …Read More
Help me spend more time on the internet
When people set personal goals for themselves, “spend less time on the internet” comes up a lot (The SHU Box for instance, is in the …Read More
How do I start a business when I’ve got a bundle of kids around here?
In the post earlier this week on The Nesting Place, a few comments raised the question of how to start a business when you don’t …Read More
I like to go to other people’s conferences
I went to a writing conference a few weeks ago and it was fine. I said hello to a number of people I know, and …Read More
The Nesting Place: Analysis, critique, etc.
I recently read The Nesting Place, by Myquillyn Smith, and went through various frames of mind about it. The one sentence review: it’s got a …Read More