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Cooking creativity
I’ve gotten into this groove with cooking in the last month or so. I’m cooking dinner basically every night, while part-time working and full-time Dad-ing, and I’m not stressed about it. Not only that, I’m actually making (and I’m totally being objective here) good food. Like real food not from a box. I’m thinking that…
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Self-expression is a basic human need and you are doing it all the time
One of the challenges with my shift to working part-time and being a full-time Dad has certainly been the lack of “me” time, but that didn’t really explain the gap I’ve been struggling to cover since shifting my hours and days around. While reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte though, I came across…
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Work (and play) in spikes, not slogs
Since going part-time last year, my schedule has become more fragmented then ever. To an outsider it could certainly look like a nightmare of context switching. However, I’ve started to become more comfortable with my routine being very “on and off” and, instead of viewing it like a long slog, I view it like a…
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Daddy, daddy, daddy
First it was mommy, mommy, mommy and now it’s daddy, daddy, daddy Those were the words my daughter just used to describe how it’s been going with the recent family transition of me working part-time and my wife working full-time instead of the other way around. I’ve been thinking about what to say about the…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
