Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for bot[...]
Last July, as I was working figuring out how to better balance my life, I started interviewing other people who seemed like they have it all together. I always had the intent of sharing these interviews with you, so I recorded them for bot[...]
I'm writing this post as we drive down the highway in the middle of Tennessee. We're headed back home from a visit to my mom's house outside Detroit. This would seem like a normal Christmas voyage, except two things are different: "hom[...]
On May 9th, I gave birth to our third daughter, Adelaide, while running on just an hour of sleep, following a 10 hour work day into the wee hours of the morning. Adelaide was born at noon; I rested, ate food, worked to get our breastfeedin[...]
Last year, I competed in Go Code Colorado, a combination business startup and app development competition hosted by the Colorado Secretary of State's office. This weekend is "challenge weekend" for the annual competition, so I though[...]
Friday, on my Facebook Page, I shared this video of Professor Robert Kelly being interviewed by the BBC, and having his children walk into the room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY It's quite the funny little moment (although p[...]
Today, Zara turned three. That means it has been almost three years since we moved off Nantucket. It means that we have now lived off island post Nantucket for the same amount of time that we called ourselves Nantucketers. Eve[...]
Tuesday has become one of my favorite days of the week. We get up, I pack lunches for not one but two little girls, then I drop them both off at their respective schools and return to a quiet house where I have six blissful hours wit[...]
There was a post on Motherlode last week arguing that we should give kids our undivided attention or none at all. The author called for parents to eliminate the "vast middle ground of half paying attention to them all the time — e.g., chec[...]