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Confessions of a multitasker
Morning Edition is running a series about new research on multitasking. NPR’s Jon Hamilton sums it up like this: “Multitasking causes a kind of brownout in the brain. Meyer says all the lights go dim...
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the view from Motown
You might not be caught up in the economy issues (yet!), but I just wanted to share a few insightful articles on the view from our neck of the woods: Cindy La Ferle on bailouts and jumpstarts Mitch...
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growing up is hard to do
My second grader bursts through the door after getting off the bus, wrestling to break free of her backpack, coat, boots, gloves, etc. before she runs inside. I’m sure she desperately needs to use...
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splat
Oh, what a difference a split second makes! Yesterday, I was cruising through my Christmas errands: picking up this, dropping off that, baking up this, shipping off that, stopping by here, shopping...
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in the beginning
When I started this site a few months so very long ago, I wrote a few foundational posts on the key words of my byline: reflections on family, faith and the flux of life. At that time no one was...
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let’s not go back
Julie Stills Miles at Pragmatic Compendium posted this video that made me laugh and almost cry all at the same time: I laughed at the ridiculousness of it and how far we have come since those days....
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question of the day
A post-it to add to my fridge, asked by a wise mentor mom a couple of years ago: How much fun am I to live with? It’s a good antidote to the hen-pecking. That’s all. How much fun are you today?...
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will the real me please stand up?
I might be having an identity crisis. It hit me in the midst of an amazing Vienna Teng concert at our local hot spot The Ark, for so many different reasons. Vienna’s performance moved me. She’s so...
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balance is overrated
Everywhere I go, people are trying to find balance. Whether it’s work/life balance, time/money balance, food/fitness balance, you name it, balance is the answer. If we only had balance, everything...
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paying attention to here and now
Our church is launching a simple theme this fall: These words from a recent message keep echoing through my mind: The past is not ours to change. The future is not ours to see. There is only one...
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