Category Archives: Planning

In an alternate universe, I would have run the Philadelphia Marathon this past weekend. Since my 1100-day running streak ended with the birth of my …Read More

This has been quite the year. It is almost three-quarters done, which means there is one quarter left to go. Lots of organizations do annual …Read More

Back in January, as I often do, I made a camp spreadsheet for the summer. I put the weeks of summer along the left-hand side, …Read More

When my podcast co-host, Sarah Hart-Unger, visited over Christmas, she looked at my notebook and calendar on my desk, and issued a proclamation: I was a …Read More

The end of the year is an arbitrary thing. December 31, 2018 is a Monday and January 1, 2019 is a Tuesday. Many people have …Read More

Two weeks ago, Gemma Hartley came on Best of Both Worlds to talk about emotional labor. This phrase describes the mental work that is done …Read More

This has been a surprisingly productive week. I say surprising because the week absorbed a great many Halloween activities, including two classroom volunteering stints (coordinating pumpkin …Read More