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Wandering Scientist: Traveling with A Preschooler and a Toddler... and Liking It
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Thursday, September 29, 2011. Traveling with A Preschooler and a Toddler. and Liking It. One of the amusing things about telling people about our recent California Road Trip is their reaction when I tell them that we did the trip with a 4.5 year old and an almost 2 year old. They mostly look at me like I am crazy. And maybe I am crazy, but I have to say- it was really a great trip. We had a lot of fun. Before we realized that we needed to back off on the potty training for the duration of the trip. In sh...
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Wandering Scientist: A Project Manager's View of Long Hours
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Monday, June 04, 2012. A Project Manager's View of Long Hours. The comments thread on my recent work-life balance post. And Nicoleandmaggie's recent post about productivity. Have me thinking about the extent to which my experience as a project manager informs my opinions about work hours and work-life balance. The answer is: a lot. As a project manager, I view long hours by my team (and, by extension, by myself) as both a risk and a failure. Still, this potential issue is one of the things I'm cognizant ...
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Wandering Scientist: My Book List
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps - And What We Can Do About It. By Lise Eliot. I found this book fascinating- it really makes you think about your parenting behavior and how that might influence the skills your child develops. I also like the author's first book, What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. Bedtiming: The Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep at Just the Right Age. Raising Your Spirited Child Rev...
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Wandering Scientist: Work Limit
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Monday, June 27, 2011. So why am I blogging instead of working? Because I have reached my work limit. I figured out back in graduate school that the number of hours I actually spend working is not exactly equivalent to the number of hours I spend in my office (or at my work computer at home). Furthermore, the amount of actual useful work I produce is not exactly equivalent to the number of hours I spend working. The relationships look something like this:. Have seen if my brain wasn't trying to work past...
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Wandering Scientist: Book Reviews
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I write about books. Quite a bit, but not all of those posts are reviews. Similarly, I have a category for all the reviews I've written. But not all of those are books. So here is a list of book reviews I've written. They are in reverse chronological order. My First Plane Trip,. A short picture book by Kim Jenkins. I Know How She Does It. Laura Vanderkam's book about the time management strategies of high earning mothers. Gretchen Rubin's second book about happiness. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret. I wish...
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Wandering Scientist: Women, Men, Chores, and Relationships
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Monday, April 09, 2012. Women, Men, Chores, and Relationships. Long time readers of this blog will know that I have some thoughts. On the subject of chore division. As I wrote most recently, I struggle to understand the dynamics at work. When a smart, educated woman- a woman who is not, or at least does not need to be, financially dependent on her partner- tolerates an inequitable arrangement at home, but is clearly unhappy about it, because she writes posts or comments about it on the internet. I'm also...
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Wandering Scientist: Beware the Narrative
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Monday, August 10, 2015. I'm still catching up after my vacation/staycation. I never finished the posts about the trip to France,. A picture from the LA trip, representing both balancing acts. And the enduring power of a good story! And now I have a short trip to LA I'd like to write about, too. I may not get to it. I had the best intentions to write about my last trip to Arizona- I even took pictures to use in a post! So what made me leave? Here are the possible reasons:. None of them. All of them&#...
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Wandering Scientist: Achieving Work-Life Balance: It Is Easier and Harder Than You Think
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Thursday, May 31, 2012. Achieving Work-Life Balance: It Is Easier and Harder Than You Think. Some thoughts on "work-life balance" have been bouncing around in my head, and have finally reached critical mass and coalesced into a rant that is demanding to be shared outside of my head. The initial seed for this rant was planted by comments someone named Chris Fett made on Scalzi's follow up post to his "Lowest Difficulty Setting" post. There are several of issues that she brings up in her comment. I'm g...
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Wandering Scientist: I Am Not Married to a Unicorn
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Monday, November 14, 2011. I Am Not Married to a Unicorn. A few weeks ago, Blue Milk. Reposted a post where she responded to a post at I Blame the Patriarchy in which the author Twisty, in the midst of a post supposedly making a plea for mothers to make common cause with her particular brand of radical feminism, says that she, in essence, wants to free us from the oppression of our children. Here is the section that Blue Milk quotes (emphasis is from Blue Milk):. Go and read Blue Milk's entire post.
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