When you need a streak freeze (or when you don’t)
A streak, in the habit world, is doing something every single day. Run a mile a day, meditate for 10 minutes a day, read Hebrew …Read More
Category Archives: Habits
You can do it anyway
This feels ridiculous to type, but I really dislike washing my face at night. I wash my face in the shower in the morning. At …Read More
Changing a habit
We eat a lot of dairy products in this house. My husband and his siblings love to claim that in their family, cheese is a …Read More
How a habit takes
Regular readers of this blog know that on January 1st I began a project of what I'm calling my daily "rituals." I read a chapter …Read More
Celebrate your good habits
On New Year's Eve, a great many people observe an odd tradition: believing we will become different people the next day. There will be new …Read More
What we’re eating
One upside of quarantine: regular family meals. In the absence of activities and outside-the-home-office work commitments, we've been sitting down to eat together between 6 …Read More
After the run streak
From December 24, 2016 to December 28, 2019 I ran at least a mile, every single day. This works out to be 1100 days, if …Read More
Running toward possibility
I've long been fascinated by the concept of streaks: doing something every single day. My father, who spent his career as a professor of Old …Read More
Third trimester running (again)
Some aspects of this fifth pregnancy are surreal. I get busy with the four other kids and the business and then I suddenly remember that, …Read More
Family meals can be fast
Much has been written about the importance of family meals. Usually these essays assume such family meals are home-cooked (by mom, of course) family dinners, …Read More