I’m comin’ atcha after catching up on over a month of Seth Godin’s blog posts (emailed to me daily), and simply deleting a backlog of Google Alerts and other third-party-generated notifications. How did I let it come to this? Inbox tabs, that’s how. I have personal and work Gmail accounts, and…
I don’t like to wish my days away, but I have been LIVING for this holiday weekend! This summer has been absolutely bananas, on both the work and home fronts, and I am so excited for a few days without anything on the schedule. Sure, my personal to-do list is exploding, but…
“Your inbox is overflowing. You’re paralyzed because you have too much to do but don’t know where to start. Your to-do list never seems to get any shorter. You leave work exhausted but have little to show for it.” That’s the copy on the back cover of the “Harvard Business…
Augh. The events of last week (and the week before, and the week before that…) have left me feeling lots of words that end with “less,” like speechless, helpless, and sleepless, while at the same time making me feel hopeful, mindful, and purposeful. I’m sure a lot of folks out there…
This is a silly little kitchen hack, but it’s really changed my morning routine game. Almost every morning, I make a breakfast sandwich. I put my bread in the toaster, and then I get some mix of the following ingredients out of the refrigerator: eggs salmon cream cheese onion cucumber…
Two posts in one day? I couldn’t help it. Because this Vox First Person essay… Unpaid, stressed, and confused: patients are the health care system’s free labor …is my life right now. I’ve been dying to write a follow-up to A Big Deal (but not a good one), my post…
This article from The Conversation came across my Facebook feed today and I thought it was important to share. Here’s an excerpt: Despite the endless column inches devoted to how we can find balance in our busy working lives, the solution here isn’t personal, it’s political. Those of us working…
I have a Master’s of Public Health in policy and management. While I work in public health and tobacco control policy specifically, most of my policy-related classes were related to healthcare, and specifically, insurance: the ACA, payers, bundled payments, etc. In fact, the overwhelming majority of my cohort was comprised…
I love our coffee table. It’s been in my husband’s family for a long time—not really an heirloom as much as a reliable, good-looking piece of furniture. But it’s not our coffee table anymore. Right now, it lives in the guest room, out of the way of human and furry…
I was going to write a post today, but then Vu over at Nonprofit with Balls did it for me in this hilarious post: Alarmists, disruptors, weasels, and 9 other annoying types of people in nonprofit Enjoy.
