Life updates, and working from home with kids
Greetings! Like a great many folks, we're on lockdown here for the duration. I'm doing my best to check news once a day, since more …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Adventures in homeschooling
It was bound to happen eventually. After one closure for cleaning, and a few half days for teachers to figure out remote work plans, Pennsylvania's …Read More
How I plan weekends these days
One of the upsides of speaking and writing about time management is that I have a valid professional reason for thinking through my own systems. …Read More
Best of Both Worlds podcast: Parents Who Lead, with Stew Friedman
In education circles over the past few years, there's been a movement to help teachers see themselves as leaders. You're helping people learn, of course, …Read More
In praise of remote work
Certain kinds of work have to be done on-site. Medical procedures, construction... But a lot of modern knowledge work is done by communicating with other …Read More
Every room, every day
Years ago, while writing All the Money in the World,* I got a chance to interview architect Sarah Susanka. She's best-known for the "not-so-big house" …Read More
Books read in February 2020
I spent a great deal of time nursing a baby during February. Theoretically, this gives me time to read books on my Kindle app, and …Read More
Best of Both Worlds podcast: Raising a child with special needs (plus doctor visits and sick days)
I just took the baby to his two month well-child visit yesterday. I quite like my pediatrician. She has six kids (mostly grown) and we …Read More
What is fun for the whole family?
One of the realities of having five children is that, most likely, there will be a wide spread of ages between them. There are upsides to …Read More
A(nother) blog post four years in the making
Saturday is Leap Day, that delightful extra 24 hours that comes around every four years.* The purpose is to keep the (Gregorian) calendar aligned with …Read More