How one lawyer plans to get back on the fast track after a few slow years
Careers have peaks and troughs. Many people decide to “park it” for a few years while caring for children or elderly parents, or while dealing …Read More
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How we did on the Christmas fun list
Granted, it is not yet Christmas. But as we are nearing the finish line, I thought I'd give an update on our holiday festivities. December has …Read More
Sunday prep school, Real Simple, and what’s really simple
When studying time logs for I Know How She Does It, I realized that people tended to fall into two camps. There was the “Organized Camp,” …Read More
Data vs. the narrative
While looking through some of my favorite business books of 2015, I re-read the chapter from Matthew Syed’s book Black Box Thinking on “Scared Straight” …Read More
Quarterly goals: how did I do?
Last December I wrote a post with my quarterly goals for 2015. While New Year’s resolutions are grand, I thought that quarterly goals might provide …Read More
Stuff I do not want for Christmas
The holiday catalogs are starting to pile up in my house. I will recycle them eventually, but in the meantime, I enjoy paging through to …Read More
The literary Advent calendar
Our “literary Advent calendar” made its first appearance last year. The idea is that for each pre-Christmas night of December (or of Advent, whichever) the …Read More
There were shift dresses, and bad selfies (Nordstrom Trunk write-up)
If you read I Know How She Does It, you may recall the tale of Vanessa Chan in Chapter 1. She kept her time log …Read More
“That was my own little MFA” — novelist Camille Pagán on frustration and success
I got to know Camille Pagán years ago when we were both young writers in NYC. I profiled her for a City Journal article on …Read More
A different portrait of a modern family
Last Thursday at 7 a.m., a visitor to my house would have seen this: me, standing over the waffle maker, making about a dozen waffles …Read More