I mostly work from home, and I spend a lot of time talking on the phone. Recently, I noticed that my attention span was really falling. No matter how interesting the call was, I’d find myself checking e-mail, reading blogs, and sometimes even IM-ing with my husband. It’s horrible, but it’s also hard for me to stop [...]
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I pretty much stopped reading books about parenting after the first year of the monkeys’ lives. In part, I stopped reading because I was less desperate for help. In part, I stopped because I finally realized that there was no answer in any book that would really help me figure out my kids and figure out [...]
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I had a chance to have dinner with an old friend the other night. Once we got through the stories about how cute our kids are and the stories about what our mutual friends are now doing, we started comparing notes on the whole part-time working mom thing.
We both love working part time and really value the time [...]
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I was trying out a new pair of jeans by wearing them around the house the other day, and I asked USD if he thought I should keep them. He commented on the length and the color, but the crux of the question for jeans is all about one critical component: how my butt looks.
”They’re good,” he said, “better than [...]
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Tonight, I was playing in the basement with the monkeys before dinner. Urban Super Dad called down to let us know that dinner was ready. “OK, Monkeys,” I said, “time to go upstairs for dinner.” It was 6:30 and I was hungry. “We’re playing,” was the response, accompanied by a complete lack of movement towards [...]
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To say I’m not a creature of habit is an understatement. I get easily bored when I follow the same schedule day after day, rarely walk the same route to the grocery store, and don’t even like to eat the same thing for breakfast two days in a row.
You can imagine the shock that hit [...]
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At our company retreat the other day, I was doing some thinking about how I can grow in the next year and came up with the idea that I should be more authoritative. I am one of the leaders of my company, and while I think my leadership has impact in small group settings, I’d like to [...]
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Another bonus of visiting our family in Orlando is that my sister-in-law always has lots of great magazines. The March 2008 issue of Redbook quoted a study by the University of Gottingen in Germany about the relationship between sex and work.
According to the study, 35% of women who have sex once a week and 46% of [...]
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Posted in Managing Talent on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re visiting my brother and his family in Orlando, and got the chance to go to Sea World with the monkeys this afternoon. I was a bit apprehensive about the trip, not being a big fan of crowds or commercialism, but I heard that they sell beer, so twisting my arm wasn’t very hard. We saw [...]
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