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What Do You Need in Your Life?
When I worked on the national staff of Teach For America, I learned about a helpful exercise for cultivating work/life balance (although we didn’t call it that; the exact name is escaping me). And it’s very simple.… Read MoreIt goes something like this:
You make a list of what you need in your life on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis.
I’m feeling the need to sit down and think through my list again (I’ve done this exercise a lot!). I want to make sure I find that delicate balance between my own needs and my growing baby’s needs.
So here it goes:
Daily
- Engaging and meaningful work
- Approximately eight
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Moments of Authenticity
I’ve struggled for a long time to find “my path”–my most authentic wave. Many years ago, I auditioned to work at Princeton Review (as a side job to supplement my teaching income). As part of the interview, we had to do a sample lesson about anything. I chose to do a tutorial about how to make an envelope out a recycled magazine page.A co-interviewee decided to teach about quantum physics. (Please forgive me as I botch his lecture through the lens of my metaphor-obsessed brain.) He talked about how everything in the universe is essentially a wave. He also mentioned that waves can collide and cancel each other out.… Read More -
Collecting and Developing Ideas in Notebooks
I just bought a new notebook, and I figured it was time to hunker down and write a post about the concept of a Writer’s Notebook. I’ve been promising to do it for a while now. I think I’ve been reluctant to do it because I had a sense that it would take me f-o-r-e-v-e-r. Going into one of my old notebooks is like going through a photo album or a box of memorabilia from the past. You know how you just get sucked in and one thing leads to another?The idea of a Writer’s Notebook comes from the writing workshop approach to teaching writing. The gurus of… Read More
