Right now, I have two favorite newsletters: One is NextDraft: The Day’s Most Fascinating News from Dave Pell. It’s a great mix of the need-to-know, the good-to-know, and the delighted-to-know news. The other is Recomendo, which features six recommendations of the great stuff the contributors are watching, listening to, reading,…
I have a confession. I hated reading until adulthood. Okay, okay, there’s more. In my high school AP Lit class (no idea why a non-reader would take that), I chose to read Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin for some assignment. And then–surprise!–I didn’t read it. In the days leading up…
I’ve wasted my time on a few boring, unhelpful webinars recently. Even before COVID-19, I attended (and hosted!) lots of webinars. Clients, stakeholders, and colleagues were all over the country, and it was the best way to disseminate information in an interactive way. If you’re hosting webinars these days, know…
I mostly use Pinterest to save recipes. I have three boards related to them: “For my belly” (recipes I want to try), “For my belly – dranks” (dedicated to cocktails and extravagant coffee drinks that require instruction), and “For my belly – tried & true” (recipes that I’ve tried with…
Durham, NC has had a stay-at-home order since March 26th. Around the same time we started sheltering-in-place, spring sprung. The combination of the weather, gyms being closed, people going stir-crazy inside, and combatting stress and the COVID-19(lbs.) has pushed people outdoors; and many are thinking about becoming runners. Since there…
These are stressful times. While I was brushing my teeth this morning, I was trying to decide what to write about today. “It doesn’t have to be about coronavirus,” I thought, “but it’s so hard not to write about it.” They say that the antidote to anxiety is action, so…
I had a lot of ideas for this week’s blog, from tips to start running now that gyms are closed to a satirical list of ways to stop touching your face. But there’s something else that’s really on my mind and critically important right now: local business. The past week…
In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, employers all over the country are encouraging and even mandating staff work from home. With such a shift, I’ve seen a lot of articles with really helpful resources for taking your team remote or staying focused while working from home. But once you’ve…
I was on vacation last week (it was lovely), and haven’t thought much about what I would publish today. So, I looked at my running list of content ideas and one jumped out at me: recently, I saw a headline that misspelled “de-stress” as “distress.” (I unfortunately don’t remember the…
This image was making the rounds on social media last week (at least in my circles), and I had to share. What makes you productive?
