TechnoEarthMama

This is the first of two posts on The Six-o-Clock Scramble and its founder, Aviva Goldfarb.
Here’s how our evenings go: I leave work somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00. I weave through neighborhoods and past traffic on my Xtracycle (rain or shine), and pick up my two older daughters at their after-school program.
I ride home [...]

We officially started planting the vegetable garden this weekend.  I’ve been wanting to put in peas ever since a sunny Saturday in mid-January. I weeded the beds and stirred up the soil in short sleeves, reveling in the scent of rosemary, lavender, and good clean dirt.  I was tempted to sow a few seeds while [...]

I picked up my new glasses last night, and I’ve been wearing them all day.  And I’ll probably be wearing them daily for now.
You see, my insurance coverage allows for either glasses or contacts once a year, and my contacts cost more than the allotted amount, because I have low vision and astigmatism. So I [...]

It’s a cliche. January is a time for setting goals. Really, I set goals every month, or even every day. But it’s time for me to take a look at how I’m doing for January.
At the beginning of the month, I read @metroknow’s goal-setting post on Almost Fit, and decided to adopt his mini-goal of [...]

I’m trying again. I failed at getting up at 5:00 a.m. last week, although I did manage 6:30. This week, I’m trying a new strategy. I’ve asked my husband, who does get up at 5:00, to wake me up and do an exercise routine with me. That’ll help with both the waking up and the [...]

At 5:00 this morning, the alarm clock came to life and blared out that there’d been another earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 6.1.
“Oh, no”
“What?!”
My husband and I responded simultaneously. He turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, since he was going to work two hours late today.  I rolled over and didn’t go back [...]

No, I did NOT do what that guy in the picture is doing!  Almost two weeks ago I wrote about balancing everything I wanted to do during winter break. I’m going back to work tomorrow, so it’s time to take stock.
Cookie-baking: I wanted molasses cookies, because I had some delicious, buttery ones at an earlier [...]

I work in a school, so I don’t work during winter break, which is RIGHT NOW.
I always save up too many things to do during school breaks. It’s very easy to do that, especially as a break approaches.
“Bake cookies? I’ll have plenty of time during the break.”
“Call the optometrist’s office? That’ll be much easier during [...]