Breakfast. This morning: Eggs that my son collects each evening. And Froot Loops, the one's that have extra colored sparkle dust, just in case you didn't remember that Froot is not Fruit for legal reasons.
The boys are absorbed in discussion about how to get me to plug in the Wii again. ("We should clean our [...]

I am fascinated with mastery. I will not embark on anything unless I know I can become a master at it. I did not start Ashtanga yoga until I knew I could do it every day for a year.  I did not start swing dancing lessons until I had enough money to take three lessons [...]

We finally got a dog. Sparky. His original name was Prince. But I decided you can’t have a prince on a farm. So we changed the name. Sparky is five years old, so he was probably pretty used to the name Prince, but name changing, is of course, normal in our family. (After all, I'm [...]

My favorite place for pizza in Madison is Ian’s. My kids go there in the summer for macaroni and cheese pizza. They order it because it sounds so fun, but then they don’t eat it.
Ian’s is located right on the Wisconsin State Capitol, where 70,000 people are protesting that Governor Walker is repealing almost all [...]

This is Caitlin McCabe. She's turning 30 this week. I met Caitlin through my Brazen Careerist co-founder, Ryan Paugh. They are getting married, and every day I thank goodness that Ryan found her, because I don't have a lot of friends in Madison, and I can't have one fall to the wayside for marrying someone [...]

Yesterday I was on the phone with Rachel Mendleson, from Canadian Business. She is writing an article about how to quit a job without burning bridges.  She wants me to give people advice about not burning bridges.
I tell her I think the topic is stupid. I tell her everyone knows that advice already.
She says, “What [...]

My friend Melissa is gone. It's been two weeks since her visit ended, but I’m still so sad. I’m not sure if I’m sad because I’m really lonely and isolated on the farm or if I’m sad because I fell in love with Melissa.

I miss her taking pictures all the time. For example this self-portrait. [...]

Here are some industries where jobs are disappearing very quickly: Newspapers, car assembly lines and coal mining. It’s important to keep track of jobs that are disappearing, because it gives us a glimpse of where new jobs are emerging. In order to understand where the workforce is heading, you need to understand why parts of [...]

Whatever you earn at age 40 is likely to be the top of your earning potential. This is one of a gazillion things I’ve learned from talking with Al Lee, the director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.
Al's data, which is based on the careers of college graduates, is basically that the salary curve for most people [...]

We have been snowed in for three days.
At first, it was just a hint of being snowed in, people stopping and talking in the grocery store. Not that I would know. Because the farmer told me I should probably go buy extra food in case we’re snowed in and I ignored him. Melissa and I [...]

Now that I live on a farm, which, by the way, has been inescapable for three days because of snow, I keep up with the world by watching trending topics on Twitter.
Right now, a trending topic is “Volkswagen commercial” which is about their new Super Bowl commercial. Volkswagen has conveniently released the commercial early so we [...]

This is a guest post from Cathy Reisenwitz, who blogs at Birmingham SEO Blog.
Time magazine reports that young, childless women are earning more than men. You'd be hard-pressed to find evidence of widespread discrimination against childless women in the workplace. But equally solid data confirms working mothers' suspicions that working moms do in fact get [...]