Booked . . . I’m feeling a tiny bit boxed in by my own ambitions right now. #UPHOLDERPROBLEMS (tongue in cheek, but also being serious here). On the one hand, I am happy overall! Everything is on schedule. I am delivering my deliverables, as…
Best Laid Plans
Ep #220: How a Full Time Academic + Mother of 5 Gets it Done (with Joy!), Featuring Sarah Jedd
Welcome Sarah from Harry Times!! In today’s episode, I had a blast interviewing Sarah Jedd — or, as many blog readers know her, Sarah from harrytimes!! Sarah works full time as teaching faculty at UW (official title: Teaching Faculty in Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture),…
JAX Marathon Training: 9 Weeks Until Race M: Rest (had 18 Sunday!) T: Easy run with hill stride, 8 mi @ 9:43/mi W: Warmup outside (4 mi @ 9:15/mi, super humid pre hurricane air), 4 mi TM hills – 6 x 2 min hills,…
Impromptu Adventure We (me, Annabel, Genevieve — offered to all 3 kids but C wasn’t interested!) did end up going to the Gold Over America Tour (GOAT) last night! It was such a weird experience to decide to go and buy tickets just a…
I feel like life hasn’t been “normal” in soooooo long but maybe, just maybe — these next few weeks will qualify for that designation? 1- Milton: Thankfully the storm did not end up causing any major issues where we live and by Thursday morning…
I started the day with a pretty negative attitude. I was feeling a weird 3-pronged sense of guilt: Prong 1: Guilty that I had asked for a telehealth day, because our office wasn’t actually closed (though they closed at noon today). Prong 2: Guilty…
Thinking of West Coast/Central FL!! GAHHH, Milton! I hate that this storm (or any storm really) exists. Since we are in the southeast part of the state, we aren’t expecting super scary weather (likely Tropical Storm winds + rain, but nothing hurricane strength) and…
BLP at Home: Planning 2025! I’m excited to announce that the non-travel version of BLP Live is back once again! BLP Live was born when I thought it would be really fun do to do a weekend of guided annual planning, and will be…
Appreciated Brittany‘s notes about some of what she has seen in SC/GA. Those states (and others) were hit HARD by Helene and yet there’s so much in the news cycle (and I was distracted by my own stuff AND relief at not being hit)…
1- I am reading Hyperefficient by Dr. Mithu Storoni. It is interesting – I’ve read a lot of books about chronotypes and the like but this has some different takes and is very science based. One thing that was mentioned was the idea of…