How can we enforce boundaries about work when we’re taught to equate one’s productivity with one’s morality? It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of the 24. In so far as this is […]
In the life of an over-doer, parenthood is a kind of torture therapy. You get over yourself by having no time for yourself. At the height of my most successful period as a young writer in my 20s, I was also at my most miserable. I hosted a weekly literary reading series in the red-hued […]
I tried to kill my feeling of emptiness and perpetual worthlessness with a busy schedule, with excess, with needless indulgences until eventually I became a burned-out, emotional ragged adult. I was elbow-deep in avocados on a quest to find the perfectly soft, ripe avocado for guacamole, which is basically impossible in early spring in North […]
Is there a way to use the time we’ve been given not more productively, but more meaningfully? Everyone (well, mostly women) keeps talking about how BUSY they are all the time. —I see in an email from my editor on Monday at 7:48am—It’s like suddenly, being “busy” is a badge of honor or something. I just want […]
