Lisa Belkin has her finger on the pulse of contemporary motherhood like no other. She blogged about her chat with Carl Honoré about slow parenting and what it means for parents today. I love his message. It harmonizes with mine. Go at your own pace […]
In the seventh of a series on work-life balance, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to Stever Robbins, a veteran of nine high-growth startup companies and adviser to several more, former IT project manager and current author of yet another forthcoming book. Called the GetItDoneGuy, Stever […]
The sixth in a series of work-life balance stories pushes our minds to the edge by understanding where balance originates and how to apply our relationship with time to achieve it. Lifestyle coach, Suzanne Ballantyne states: “The world may be off kilter; but we don’t […]
Bernadette Noll at SlowFamilyLiving.com brought up a terrific point. Do you have a slow barometer to gauge whether your life feels managable or not? Without really knowing it, I have one, too. Typically during the week, I don’t schedule more than two appointments a day […]
The fifth in a series of work-life balance stories brings us to Los Angeles and New York where Yelizavetta Kofman and Astri von Arbin Ahlander, respectively, offered their astounding insights into Generation Y’s views on work, life ,and parenting. As co-founders of The Lattice Group that […]
Today is the fourth in a series of conversations with work-life balance experts. A self-proclaimed ‘anti-balance expert,’ Michelle Nichols, owner of HugYourKidsToday.com and author of a book of the same name, shares her views on today’s economic crisis and living with your priorities in order. Michelle […]
This is the first in a series of interviews with top thinkers in the work-life balance community. Debbie Mandel, M.A., author of Addicted to Stress: A Woman’s 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life, told me in an email interview how she […]
“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.” -Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) We often hear “You’re as young as you feel” or “You’re as young as you think you are!” Think about it. How important is our […]
Last night my husband and I watched CNBC’s House of Cards, a special report that aired in the US in February about the origins of the housing market crisis. In short, it showed how subprime mortgages funded mortgage-backed securities that even impacted a community in […]
“Never leave the house without your lipstick and pearls,” my grandmother would say. As long as you had those things, she claimed, you were considered fully dressed. She was of an era of up-dos and crinolin. She had class, style, and charisma. The Associated Press […]