The summer after I graduated from college my sister and I were in a Goodwill store looking for clothes and books when I discovered two old fashioned suitcases. One is an army suitcase, metal and gray; the other is a fancy hard suitcase that I imagined Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald throwing on some Paris-bound European …
Uh huh, you know what I’m talking about. The top item on your to-do list every morning that you secretly hope you can find a way out of accomplishing. With me it doesn’t even have to be a hard task. Sometimes it is an embarrassingly small task but I push it to the side. This …
This weekend we helped friends move. It was a highly successful move with lots of helpers and two very organized home owners in charge, but it was overwhelming. There is nothing quite like lifting everything one owns to see how much we accumulate in our life. It left me with this stir-crazy desire to come …
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I recently learned that lawyers bill their work in 6-minute increments. 1/10 of an hour. That means that they have to log everything that is accomplished in every 6- minute session. What have you accomplished in the last six minutes? The last 12 minutes? The last 18 minutes? Friends of ours recently renovated part of …