Published: early December 2017. We’re now well into 2018, so I hope you have 2018 goals set and in progress! In the last few years, it feels like the urgency of planning for the following year is starting earlier and earlier. This year, I started seeing a whole lot of “planning and goal setting for…
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me. (From the movie Groundhog Day) My dad’s favorite movie is Groundhog Day. While I don’t appreciate the movie nearly to the level…
Last week was one of those weeks. You know, the ones where it seems like anything that can go wrong will. There was nothing truly major; it was just one thing after another after another. We had: A stomach flu (which included a day out of daycare and parents trading off childcare based on who…
It’s that time of year! A common November goal, and one of mine, is to plan for a peaceful and lower-stress holiday season. This is the big week, and we kicked it off with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and a fantastic, but low-key family Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. We did something totally new and had…