Success at Work Challenge Week 5: Practice, practice, practice
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 3 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
All the Money in the World: What the happiest people know about wealth
This was an expensive Memorial Day weekend, given that we stayed in town. But all in all, I think it was money well spent.The biggest …Read More
Friday links: My budding thespian
Yesterday afternoon, my son's kindergarten class put on a play called "Life Cycles." He was the gardener, and wore his little overalls and straw hat …Read More
How we’re eating these days
There is a common narrative out there about vegetable gardening and kids. In earnest personal essays, parents talk of their picky eaters shunning vegetables. Then …Read More
The dandelion project, and other time use studies
Given the passions that discussion of women, careers, and children seems to spark -- here and elsewhere! -- I’ve been thinking this topic could really …Read More
What’s your work limit?
Over at Wandering Scientist about two years ago, the blogger known as Cloud posted a graph highlighting a fascinating little observation about productivity. Charting her …Read More
Success at Work Challenge Week 4: Know what is work
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 4 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Enjoy your productivity dividend
If you’ve been following this week’s #SuccessAtWork challenge, hopefully you’ve been making very short to-do lists. And hopefully you’ve been knocking everything off that you …Read More
Making success possible…in kindergarten
We are celebrating a very special boy's 6th birthday around these parts today. My husband and I stopped by his kindergarten class this afternoon to …Read More
Want to beta-test my novel?
I took numerous creative writing classes in college. While there were definitely some strange parts, the upside was having a class full of people who …Read More