Friday-Free Summer Days
Do you work less during the summertime? Take this poll to see where you land on the spectrum of slow summer days!
Do you work less during the summertime? Take this poll to see where you land on the spectrum of slow summer days!
Starting the day off with a giggle is a great thing to do! Actually, my day started off with a slow wake-up (Germany played its first World Cup soccer match so brilliantly, we couldn’t get to sleep until well past bedtime), then the usual breakfast […]
Sundays in Germany are nice because most stores are closed, but some bakeries are not. That means you can’t do much but eat cake. So on this grey Sunday we’re having coffee and cake while watching the World Cup. What do you do on your […]
I’ll be the first to admit I still have the very first stuffed animal I ever received. It is a hand-made Winnie the Pooh that my mom sewed together out of scraps of material. He is pooh brown, not that honey gold you see in […]
In the 80s aerobics was hot. Jane Fonda and those lovely scrunchy socks, the full-body suits and the thong-like overpants. The faster you pumped, the better. The 90s rolled by me as I rolled by it on my bike (I lived eight miles from University […]
Slow makes things flow. Doubt it? Have you ever noticed how traffic patterns are affected by one person going too fast behind you who then has to slam on the brakes because you aren’t going the same speed? Multiply the speed by the distance and the […]
Image via Wikipedia CTV news wrote a piece about Harvard Business School blogger Peter Bregman who embarked on a single-tasking experiment after a series of multitasking blunders. He tried to craft an email while on a conference call with a board member, who asked him […]
Waiting sucks. Or at least we think it to be a minor annoyance. While waiting can offer us the opportunity to savor, you task-minded folks may appreciate these tips for those places when hanging around feels more like a time drain than a dance! Doctor’s […]
Tracey Frost, founder of the New York-based community center, Citibabes, provides great guidelines to move your kids away from the screen and into the green this summer. – Ignore the Whining: It’s important for parents to understand that for children, TV may always seem like […]