Archive for June 2016

I’ve been in a particularly curious season of childrearing and childworking. I have two kids at home with a lot of hormones, facing violently rapid brain development and occasional existential angst, and I have about 520 kids at work, many of whom are also in the throes of puberty and making some really wacky, seemingly…

I am a fiercely competitive person. I enjoy racing triathlons and each race I run, I want to do better than I did the race before. (Although as I get older, I more frequently want to simply finish rather than PR!) But competition or “being competitive” is sometimes given a bad rap. The phrase “she’s…