Last week I wrote about how to increase your self-discipline, something I’ve struggled with mightily. You can click back to read about the first two steps here before going on. 3. Discover what motivates you. You already know that sometimes you are good at doing the things you don’t want to do. No matter how…
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Thoughts on “The Help”
These days people are much more politically correct than they used to be. It’s publicly frowned upon to say or do anything overtly racist or sexist. This is a good thing. The downside is that our prejudices (and others’ ) tend to be a lot more subtle and harder to detect. I include myself in…
Inferior
When he sat down at the new piano and began playing – a lovely improvised piece that somewhat resembled Pachelbel’s Canon – I fought back the tears, swallowed my pride for the millionth time, and smiled back when finished. Having our own piano had been a dream of ours since we were engaged, lazily imagining…
The miracle
A miracle happened at my house this week. It isn’t the sort that will bestow sainthood on anyone, but it is just slightly shy of utterly life-changing. It started with this book. My dear friends sent it to us for Christmas, and wow, do they ever know us. The book is called Switch: How to…
Team Rasler goes to Montessori
It’s hard to send your kids off to school for the first time. And sending both of them at once? Excruciating. Also wonderful. Let’s start with hard first, to get it out of the way. First, there is the decision itself. People here start looking at preschools in January. That’s right, eight months in advance….
