Category Archives: Work Life Balance

Fitbit conflict

I started wearing a Fitbit® last year. I thought the heart rate, sleep and other data could be interesting to have; plus, it could help me hold myself accountable for my fitness and sleep goals. It wasn’t quite clear how … Continue reading

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Recovering from Three Fractures

My last few months have been dominated by working to recover from an accident that broke my dominant wrist (both radius & ulna) and collarbone. It has been a humbling, frustrating, and sometimes even an uplifting experience. Since two weeks … Continue reading

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Boxing Day and Other Holiday Remnants

If you have a calendar at your desk, have a look at December 26th. Most calendars show that day as Boxing Day. Not many of us here in the US have the slightest clue what Boxing Day is. Yet every … Continue reading

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Finding your inner Yoda…

I’ve always thought of myself as very organized. I tend to make to do lists to help me keep track of both home and work responsibilities, but lately the lists, especially my home list, just keep growing and growing and … Continue reading

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Balancing my Checkbook and other Disruptors

Anyone who knows me knows I enjoy TV (anyone who reads this blog may also know this from my previous post: The Best Part of Autumn). One of my favorite shows that debuted last year is New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam … Continue reading

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A Change Management Challenge: Twins!

I’m about to become the grandmother of twins! My daughter, who already has a six year old and a four year old, is expecting twins in November. Welcoming a new baby always comes with a period of upheaval before the … Continue reading

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I’ll be happy when…

For as long as I can remember, my life has always been structured with an obvious overarching goal in mind. When I was six, I started attending school, and from then on, my main goal was to graduate elementary school; … Continue reading

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Word of the Day

I would like to talk about the concept of my family’s word of the day. It is not the typical family text or group chat, but an email sent every weekday morning by my father. It is a way to … Continue reading

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Life Lessons from The Talking Dead

Winding down from the three-day Labor Day weekend I found myself on Hulu streaming a 2017 HLN episode of Inside with Chris Cuomo, The Talking Dead. It was late Monday night, I was procrastinating from turning in and so I … Continue reading

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Lessons learned from the slopes

In the winter, my family spends almost every weekend skiing. This season we eagerly started in mid-November at Mount Snow, VT. The following weekend we skied at Bretton Woods, NH. All this while we waited for Ragged Mountain, NH to … Continue reading

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