Lately I have been thinking a lot about patterns, like routines, habits, schedules. How do you get over the hump to break a bad one or start a new, better one? I believe that one of the big differences between success and failure has to do with whether you’re able to barrel over that hump […]
As is probably obvious by now, I like food. blakery.com gets to be today a little of what it was originally intended to be. Over the past 13 years I have done a lot of baking. Despite many favorite recipes, (much to Joel’s chagrin) I rarely make the same thing twice, and I’m always up […]
Approximately sixteen hours ago, I was so moved by the uncharacteristic quiet calm in our home that I tweeted. I thought I was being clever. Later Joel would chastise and blame me for precipitating the cascade of events that followed. After waking to an alarm this morning in an effort to get ourselves up during […]