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Aug 13

Seconds, Minutes, Hours

I have a love-hate relationship with the leaning in/opting in/”having it all” media barrage.  I love the discussion for the hope it offers and the fascinating stories it uncovers, and I hate it for its privileged tone and generalization of an issue that is highly individual.  The latest headliner on the topic was published in The New York Times Magazine Sunday: “The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In.”  Like many of the other articles on the topic, it profiles some interesting people and discusses their lives and their choices without talking about the biggest elephant in the room: TIME. Read more

Aug 12

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Walking the Walk

“It would be foolish to want only ‘happiness’ for our children.  This would leave them stunted and poorly prepared for life’s inevitable difficulties.  What we really want to cultivate is well-being, which includes as generous a portion of optimism as our child’s nature allows and the coping skills, and therefore the resilience, that make adaptive recovery from challenge possible.”
– Madeline Levine, PhD

Our children are among our best teachers, reminding us of the raw humanness that connects us all and giving us reason to think about our own values and actions and choices in a broader context.  Read more

Aug 8

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Cucumbers + Gladiolas

The cottage is made up of four rooms — a kitchen, a living space, a bedroom, and a bathroom — all tiny, adding up to a mere 400 feet or so.  Flanked by forest green paneling and narrow white beams, the space appears fragile but represents resilience.  It looks as if one of the many fierce Midwestern thunderstorms that rage each summer could destroy it in one mighty gust, but it has withstood hundreds….maybe thousands of them of the years. Read more

Aug 7

On Gratitude

Mid-way through dinner tonight, we heard a loud “BANG!”  Everyone looked up from their plates wondering what it had been.  A firework left over from the 4th of July?  A gunshot?  Some sort of explosion?  Within minutes, we saw a blaze across the lake, forming a crimson path on the water and sharpening the silhouette of the pine tree in front of it.  It happened in a flash — a quiet and peaceful evening turned into a steady stream of sirens and a fireball raging out of control, smoke billowing and flames leaping.  Read more

Aug 5

Share the Love

What’s not to love about the sharing economy?  This planet has a lot of people on it…and more than enough stuff to go around.  So why not share the love?  If you’re into collaborative consumption, beyond finding a place to stay on Airbnb and renting a Zipcar and finding a new (used) tent on Yerdle, you can now simply lend your support at a new organization designed to “educate our peers and community leaders about the benefits of sharing” — www.peers.org. Read more

Aug 2

Career Bookshelf

What do I want to be when I grow up?  This is an age-old question many of us re-visit on a regular basis (I’ve only been working for 13 years, and I’m already on career #4).

For a work project, I recently asked people to share the names of the best career books they’d ever read.  Many of the usual suspects made the list, but I thought it was a useful collection to share nonetheless.  Read more

Aug 1

Herby Melange

My great, great aunt — a role model for healthy aging — always seems to bring something special when she comes over for a meal.  Self educated and worldly, she has a sophisticated grace about her that shows through in her day-to-day way of living, the questions she asks, and her impeccable taste in seemingly everything.  As a college student, her recipes are the first one’s I’d ever seen with no measurements, just ingredients.  Read more

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