Your cupboard is not a metaphor for life
It’s a perennial New Year, New You topic: how to organize your possessions. Real Simple’s January issue promises a year of organized living, starting with …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Holiday memories, reviews and links
When it comes to how humans view time, we turn out to have multiple personalities: the anticipating self, the experiencing self, and the remembering self. …Read More
What the most successful people do on the weekend
I'm taking a bit of time off this week. One of the benefits of writing about time management is that I'm more mindful of how …Read More
Random December Musings
This month has been a bit of a slog. But there is a clear path to everything being turned in by 5 p.m. tomorrow, people …Read More
This is the way the world ends
The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we’ve been learning in story after story this week, a calendar. …Read More
Sheer volume of artistic output
We have a paper problem in our house. My 5-year-old loves to draw and write and make maps. He likes nothing better than to write …Read More
A somber weekend
The weekend of December 8-9 had been pretty busy for my household: a cookie-exchange party, my husband’s office party, joining our new church, and I …Read More
Round-up: Mr. Money Mustache and me
I'm deep into deadlines right now, so just a few links. First, Grumpy Rumblings of the Half-Tenured (aka NicoleandMaggie) wrote a post comparing and contrasting the …Read More
Micro-credentials
As part of the project I'm doing on digital learning, I got to interview Sal Khan (of Khan Academy) yesterday. I wrote about The Math …Read More
Planning for the December bug
My birthday is in early December. Early December also plays host, annually, to a nasty bout of the stomach flu that circulates in these parts. …Read More