The Reality of Multi-Tasking

January 23, 2010

“Scientists at MIT now say multi-tasking is bad for our health. Just like smoking; as soon as we get good at something they want us to quit it.”

At no other time in my life did I learn to improvise more than when I was a working mother. Not even when I was at Second City, where improvising was born.

I always felt I had to make the house perfect in order to go out to work. Call it some form of female Homeland Security. I blame it of Martha Stewart. We almost got ourselves out of the kitchen and that broad came

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Confessions of a Road Warrior

When I lived in the big city, I blamed the fast pace of life on urban living. I would drive to my business careening through city streets doing my lipstick, talking on a cell phone and breast-feeding two kids all at the same time. Now that I live in the country, I realize I have not slowed down one iota. I am the type of person who believes the speed limit is merely a suggestion. I think I am trying to drive as fast as I think. I used to drive 118 kilometers per hour, now I’m doing 130 kilometers per

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That which doesn’t kill you makes you funnier.

Every winter we doubt spring will come. But sure as anything one morning we will wake up wearing a hat and mitts and then by afternoon we’ll be wearing shorts and applying sunscreen. Climate Change has almost made spring obsolete. Almost cut out this transition season.

But I love spring. Spring brings flower buds and new ideas and the bunny who brings candy. You have to admit that was one fertility story that went horribly askew. I never really bought the Easter Bunny Neither did my daughter. When she was about seven she came up to me and said, “Mommy the

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