Do you juggle? I mean, not professionally in the circus or anything like that. (But hey, if you do, cool!) I mean the Juggle of Life. The career obligations. The family obligations.The personal needs and plans and desires. The spouse and the kids and the house and the...
Like many women I know, I am wired to work. Driven, I would describe myself. Committed, I’ve been called. Ambitious, I’ve heard them say, sometimes in a way that makes it sound less like a positive quality and more of a character flaw. (Ambition is NOT a...
It occurs to me as I write this that we are surrounded. By dozens and hundreds and thousands of invisible, powerful, ever-changing things. By air molecules and dust spores, yes. By tiny single-celled organisms that live in our eyelashes and intestines, true. (And,...
Are you waiting to do something, you know, when the time is right? Is that project a bit late because you just want to fix one more thing? Deleting dozens of photos until you get the perfect shot for Pinterest? (Full disclosure – the image accompanying this...
I’ve thought for some time about what this day would be like. It is Day One of Wow, I’m Suddenly Unemployed (by Choice). For the first time in 24 years, with the exception of scheduled vacations and some deserved time off after pushing out each of my...