Work-life balance. That’s the dream, right? We all want to find thatĀ balance, giving us enough time and energy for bothĀ work and everything else in our life. Not only do employees want it,...
Kayaking is fun. I especially love the feeling of being pushed around by the waves. You’reĀ in control, but not fully. You’re safe, but not totally. I took a kayaking course recently, and...
Ā Maybe you know the parable of the rich young man, in Matthew 19:16-30, who asked Jesus what he needed to do to attain eternal life, and left crestfallen, having been toldĀ to sell everything he...
Some nights, before I sleep, I browse through my phone calendar. (Not the best way to deal withĀ insomnia, I’ll admit.) I have little reminders set up for almost every day of the month. They...
I onceĀ believed that one day I’d change the world in a good, unselfish, non-superficial way. But real life hit me hard. I was overrun byĀ a deep existential crisis. No, not the kind you feel...
Let’s say you’ve just entered a room. You don’t know anyone there. So you spend a bit of time observing everyone. How they move. When they speak. Where they stop. Their facial...
Have you ever had one of those days where everything that canĀ go wrongĀ goes wrong? You wake up 30 minutes late for work. You’re in panic mode; youāre out of the house in record speed. You...
I’d been a student forĀ 16 years, so when it was (finally) time to graduate, I threw my mortarboard into the air with glee.Ā It was freedom at last, no more assignments, presentations, late...
When I graduated from medical school in 2007, the plan at that time was to become a general practitioner. But thenĀ I becameĀ pregnant with our first child, Josiah ā and I struggledĀ with whether I...