How’s the Early Bedtime Project going? Spotty. But positive even so. The inconsistency is not a surprise—I acknowledged that late-night work sessions are a longstanding habit, maybe even part of my identity. As expected (I even built it into the plan), I reverted to working into the night under deadline pressure. Now that I’m not [...]

I’m a night owl, as you may have deduced from the time stamps on my blog posts. I actually like mornings, I do!, but for years I’ve been in the habit of doing my creative work (and often my less creative work too) late, late at night.
Nothing wrong with that. Being free to [...]

I was working on a proposal for a new-to-me potential client, and it wasn’t going well at all.
The proposal was for a workshop in a new subject area—a topic I wasn’t sure I wanted to develop. I’d gone over the pros and cons and decided it was worth trying for. (Pros: It’s good to stretch [...]

It’s a link post! Today I point you to some bloggers who are fighting the good fight, railing against the pressure to cram more, more, more into our days.
At Tools for Thought, Andre Kibbe spells out why a relentless focus on the sacred cows of productivity and efficiency is the opposite of helpful when you’re [...]

I belong to a community garden, and when I joined four years ago, I thought, what a glorious escape this will be for a city-dweller.
It hasn’t turned out that way.
I expected to love gardening. It’s one of America’s top-ten hobbies!  My mom and my stepmom have beautiful gardens. My community-garden neighbors have lush and showy plots. [...]