Bedtime stories worth staying up for
Laura's note: This is cross-posted at Gifted Exchange, my education blog. I don't have affiliate agreements with any retailers, and the links are a random …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Poll: Mothers want to work
One of the fun parts of renting vacation houses is seeing what magazines and books other people have left there. I may subscribe to Bon …Read More
My least favorite “statistic”
If you read newspapers or magazines frequently, you’ve probably happened upon the genre of the trend piece.A trend piece documents something allegedly on the rise, …Read More
168 hours in Cape May
We spent the past week in Cape May, NJ -- actually, in Cape May Point, right at the southern tip of the state. We rented …Read More
Blogging as deliberate practice
I’ve written here (and elsewhere) before of how I’ve come to see blogging as my daily writing practice. I write for a living, and I …Read More
Games and the perception of time
As a little kid, I had a lot of time to fill. Some of this was spent outside climbing trees, but eventually it gets dark …Read More
Flextime: Who receives when they ask?
When it comes to flexible work arrangements, a lot of attention centers on the ask. What do managers react most positively to? Who is most …Read More
Paperback — out in a month! Plus thoughts on print
The countdown is on! The paperback version of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast -- which bundles my 3 ebooks on time management, …Read More
Kids, sleep schedules, and work
Part of parenting is learning about your own kids -- and part is realizing what’s universal, and what’s more specific to individual families and children.I …Read More
Highlights for Children, 35 years ago
My mom’s been cleaning out some closets, and realized she’d held on to some old Highlights for Children from mine and my brothers’ childhoods. She …Read More