Sunday evening parties, and turning three
My son, Sam, turned three last week. We invited his new classmates over to our house Sunday in the late afternoon and let the kids …Read More
Category Archives: Free Time
Space for spontaneity
One of the reasons I like planning a few “anchor” events for my weekend is that I find a few plans still leave plenty of …Read More
September in Saugatuck
I had a fun confluence of events this past weekend that had me back in the Midwest. I was invited to speak in Chicago at …Read More
The exhaustion of doing nothing
I’ve been writing a lot lately about weekend time management. I know that sounds like an oxymoron -- weekends are the time we don’t have …Read More
Wringing every last drop from summer
I hadn’t been planning to do anything special for Labor Day weekend. We spent the last weekend of July at the beach, and I took …Read More
Tuning up my weekends
I have been thinking about how I use my weekends as I study how other people use theirs (for my next ebook in the series …Read More
Travel with the kiddos
Several months ago, Jasper, my 5-year-old, decided we should go to San Diego. I’m not sure quite how he got this idea, but in the …Read More
A week at the shore
I’m back from spending a week in Ocean Grove on the Jersey shore (a more relaxed, family-friendly part of the shore than depicted in the …Read More
What’s for dinner? (2012 version)
I’ve been experimenting with making smoothies lately. I bought a frozen Yoplait berry smoothie pack from the supermarket, but was offended to learn that I …Read More
The Paradox of Weekends
I’m writing this on Sunday night after a fairly full weekend. While Friday evening was relatively low-key, Saturday and Sunday were not. We drove to …Read More