I want to thank everyone who bought my book. I loved the process of selling the book, making it, and shipping it out. I learned so much.
I’m convinced that the biggest impact Generation Z will have on the workplace is in their schooling. They will be lifelong, self-learners, who take more personal responsibility for their ongoing education than any generation in history. I am not talking about graduate school here. I am talking about a more creative, independent way of learning […]
I have never been a fan of vacations. Why would I need a vacation from my life if I like my life? Also, I’m a fanatic about routine. After years of obsessive research about what makes people happy, I have determined that self-discipline is the key to happiness. And self-discipline is really difficult, but not […]
If you ask the Farmer, he would tell you that I was really really nice to him last week while he was in bed, immobile, strung out on six Percocet a day. I made him pies, and French toast, and meat at every meal because there is no amount of Percocet that would make him […]
My garden is full of vegetables that I never would have guessed I could grow. There is so much that I am not sure what to do with it all. Because the acorn falls close to the tree, my son decided he wanted to sell rhubarb at our local farmers market. To be clear, a […]
You are probably wondering if I think about Melissa having an affair with the Farmer. I do. I think about it all the time. As a preventive measure I tell the farmer that if he cheats on me, I'll stay with him. Forever. I'll never leave him. He'll be stuck on the farm with me, […]
Ten years ago, when I was pitching my book to publishers, one publisher leaned back in his chair and said, “I don’t get it, she’s never worked in Human Resources, she’s not part of Generation Y, and we can’t even figure out what her career is. So how is she qualified to give career advice […]
Father’s Day is a big deal in our house because we have two dads. We have the boys’ biological dad – my Ex – and we have the Farmer. On Sundays, including Father’s Day, we all spend the day together, on the farm, in mostly harmony. It is not perfect. A few weeks ago, my […]
One thing I have learned from living on a farm is that you are not really experiencing diversity unless you are also experiencing repulsion. We each have lots of assumptions about what is right and wrong, how the world works, how people should act in a civilized community. When faced with true diversity – that […]
Our cat has been peeing on everything. He especially likes the our bed sheets and my younger son's shirts. Finally we took the cat to the vet and it turns out he had crystals in his bladder. I'm not going into the chemistry lesson of acid and base and crystals. Mostly because I couldn't follow […]