To Do Lists and Schedules • To figure out how long something takes, time yourself 3x doing it as you normally do to get an
I read an interview with Khaled Hosseini in Time Magazine. He’s best known for the haunting ”˜The Kite Runner’ in 2003, but he was discussing
My new book is finally in print. It seems like it took forever ”” I guess because it freakin’ DID ”” but I can take
Many of my friends have been admitting to some end-of-the-year blues which is something I don’t really understand. I happen to adore this week between
When my kids were little I stayed home with them, often with other daycare kids in the house. I always had the videocamera ”” the
My daughter lives in Portland, Oregon so I’ve traveled there quite often, most recently a few weeks ago. Every time I’m there I marvel at
If you’ve spent any time at all in BeckyLand, you’ll know I have three grown kids. The oldest, my beautiful and exceptionally talented writerdaughter (yes,
On NPR I heard a guy say, “Turn into the wind of your weakness.” I don’t know the topic or the context of the conversation,
Lest you think I am obsessed with how I look, let me just explain that I recently bought a new Kodak camera and now I
I read Amy Chua’s book BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER and loved it as much as a Chinese mother loves torturing her children. I