Historical Archives
It turns out my ideas about exercise aren’t entirely off the mark: Many obesity researchers now believe that very frequent, low-level physical activity — the kind humans did for tens of thousands of years before the leaf blower was invented — may actually work better for us than the occasional bouts of exercise you get…
So that exercise thing? Barely made two laps. I’m out of neath. Sad. — Post From My iPhone Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
I really appreciated seeing this post this morning about not focusing so much on the clock. I have a real tendency to do this, scheduling every minute of every day. Today, for example, Geeky Boy and I had to go to the high school to rework his schedule, so I started my planning from there.…
I like consistency. I like having a routine and a plan for the day, for the week, etc. I usually deliberately put variety into the routine, but knowing that I do x from 8-9 and then y from 9-10 works really well for me. Sadly, the summer has not been the least bit consistent or…
We spent the last couple of days meandering around DC with some old friends from grad school. Much fun was had by all. There was lots of walking, eating, and drinking. Now I need a nap. Here are the kids in front of the White House. Next time, they say they want to go inside.…
Image by lorda via Flickr Michael Pollan has a wonderful article in this week’s New York Times Magazine about the coincidental decline of cooking and rise of cooking shows. I have written about the pleasures of cooking a few times before. I really enjoy doing it and I love the results as well. Although I…
I really like Mark Bullen’s Net Gen Skeptic blog, because I, too, maintain a healthy skepticism about they hype surrounding the so-called Net Generation. I don’t think they’re all disengaged, tech-savvy people. When I teach and use something as simple as a blog, I have to teach about 80% of the class how to use…
I had the great pleasure today of leading a session on Personal Branding for Drexel University co-op students. I’m not what one might call a “guru” on the topic, but I’ve essentially been creating a personal brand since 1998. I also worked as a salesperson for a few years and have been through several job…
Yesterday, I started a long post about race that I just couldn’t finish. Suffice it to say, my relationship to race is complex, influenced by being raised in the South, by my own desire to figure out how the South got to where it is, and by people I’ve known and other places I’ve lived.…
Image by lorda via Flickr Dr. Crazy had an interesting post the other day on how she’s finally decided to put her foot down and not take the crappy time slots just because she doesn’t have kids. I’ve been sitting on that post since I read it and then Wendy at Outside Providence responded and…
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