• New Directions

    Getting Unstuck

    Several years ago, I decided to take up yoga. I had two preschool children, a full-time job, I was working on my doctoral dissertation–I needed something in my life that wasn’t a source of…

  • New Directions

    All Hobby, No Hustle

    When you start a blog, one of the things you learn pretty quickly is that many people assume blogging leads to some form of income. (Why else would you do it, they wonder?) In…

  • Work & Home

    Rethinking Decluttering

    If you have a Netflix account, chances are you’ve seen Tidying Up With Marie Kondo somewhere on your feed. If you spend any time on social media, you may have seen a Twitter argument brewing. At…

  • New Directions

    How to (Mostly) Quit Facebook

    At the start of the year, I decided to take a Facebook hiatus. My original plan was to give it up for a week. I’d developed such a Facebook habit, though, that it took…

  • Work & Home

    In Praise of Quantity Time

    As a mom who worked full-time while my kids were small, I worried a lot about how the time I gave my career might have a negative impact on them. At the same time,…

  • Managing the Big Rocks

    You’ve probably heard about this common time management exercise. Someone gives you a jar and a few big rocks, along with a bunch of pebbles and a quantity of sand. Your job is to…

  • New Directions

    A Look Ahead at 2019

    As I mentioned in a post last week, my word of the year for 2019 is focus. Paying attention to one thing at a time–and making the time for things that really matter–are among my goals.…