Here at Thoughts on Translation, I've been working on a loosely organized series of posts inspired by summer. A few weeks ago I wrote about ways to handle summer as a freelancing mom or dad; now let's talk about the importance of down time in our freelance lives. In the not-so-distant past (I'm 38 … [Read more...] about The importance of down time
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Handling summer as a freelancing parent
Here in Colorado, school has been out for a couple of weeks. Elsewhere in the U.S., summer vacation is fast approaching. If you're a freelancing mom or dad, it's both the best of times and the worst of times! Each morning in the summer, I wake up and have a little gratitude moment: I'm grateful for … [Read more...] about Handling summer as a freelancing parent
Test drive: the Personal Efficiency Program
I'm not generally a fan of time management literature, but during a recent trip to the local library, Kerry Gleeson's The Personal Efficiency Program: How to stop feeling overwhelmed and win back control of your work caught my eye (published 2009 by John Wiley and Sons, 4th edition). Lately I've … [Read more...] about Test drive: the Personal Efficiency Program
The tyranny of the sub-goal
I learned the expression "the tyranny of the sub-goal" from my husband, who most frequently applies it to chores around the house, as in "We need to paint the living room but before that we have to fix the hole in the sheetrock where we smashed the corner of the washing machine into the wall." … [Read more...] about The tyranny of the sub-goal
How to hide or delete a moribund blog
One of the plus/minus factors in the social media universe is the immortality of material that you post on the web. If you write an ill-advised comment on someone else's blog, it's there forever (unless you convince the blogger to remove it). However, the same isn't true of a blog you write … [Read more...] about How to hide or delete a moribund blog