Reading Virginia Woolf at a wrestling meet
I spent Saturday morning as I have many a wintry Saturday morning this year: driving to a wrestling meet in some new corner of Pennsylvania. …Read More
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Opening a new spreadsheet
I started tracking my time continuously in April of 2015. There was no one event that precipitated it. I'd had a baby in January, and …Read More
Time-tracking challenge – wrap up thread
The 168 Hours Time-Tracking Challenge officially ended for me at 5 a.m. Monday morning. I was asleep! Indeed, I slept from 10:30-6:30, when I heard …Read More
The 168 Hours Time Tracking Challenge wrap-up thread
My 168 hour log officially ends for me at 5 a.m. Monday morning each week, and unfortunately, I was up to see it this morning. …Read More
Procrastination — or why you are reading this blog post instead of working
I spent some time yesterday cruising the book shelves over at Barnes and Noble, doing a bit of market research. My take-away is that a …Read More
Looking for a good fall read?
I love fall. Yesterday, driving to pick up my son at swimming, I was so taken with the slanted early evening light reflecting off the …Read More
Books and titles and other miscellany
My publisher and I are close to figuring out the new title of the Book-Formerly-Known-As-Mosaic. In theory, my latest round of edits was due back …Read More
The Baby-sitters Club, and how we figure out what people want to read
I interviewed a few people from Macmillan last week for a piece I’m writing on crowdsourcing. One of those people was Jean Feiwel, who lists …Read More
Confessions of a demand-side reader
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the differences between “supply side” readers -- those who set aside times to read, and build reading naturally into …Read More
Making time to read: supply vs. demand
When I ask people what they’d like to do more of with their time, “read” comes up almost as often as “exercise.” And yet many …Read More