Hollowing the stone: The art of sustainable progress
Normally, when we think of discipline, we envision the willpower to stick with difficult things when we’d rather quit. We keep waking up to run …Read More
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Success at Work Challenge Week 6: Pay in
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 2 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Success at Work Challenge Week 5: Practice, practice, practice
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 3 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Friday links: My budding thespian
Yesterday afternoon, my son's kindergarten class put on a play called "Life Cycles." He was the gardener, and wore his little overalls and straw hat …Read More
How we’re eating these days
There is a common narrative out there about vegetable gardening and kids. In earnest personal essays, parents talk of their picky eaters shunning vegetables. Then …Read More
The dandelion project, and other time use studies
Given the passions that discussion of women, careers, and children seems to spark -- here and elsewhere! -- I’ve been thinking this topic could really …Read More
What’s your work limit?
Over at Wandering Scientist about two years ago, the blogger known as Cloud posted a graph highlighting a fascinating little observation about productivity. Charting her …Read More
Success at Work Challenge Week 4: Know what is work
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 4 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Want to beta-test my novel?
I took numerous creative writing classes in college. While there were definitely some strange parts, the upside was having a class full of people who …Read More
Confidence and competence
For my first two years of high school, I earned As easily. I studied some, and worked hard for an English independent study I had …Read More