Redefining Leisure
On my to-do list for today is the aspirational task... "write something." So here I am. It's a busy time in academia, the sprint to the finish line at the end of the spring semester. There are tests to write, tests to grade, daily assignments to brainstorm and final projects to draft and explain and guide students through. There are advising meetings, where students are thinking ahead to next semester and next year and the rest of life, asking big and small questions that deserve answers. My own kids are racing around outside after school and tracking mud through the house and resisting bedtimes because IT'S STILL LIGHT OUT, MOM! At a conference for women in engineering I was lucky to attend recently, there were so many successful women talking about their careers and work and climbing that ladder. There was a time for questions at the end of each talk, and every single time, some form of the age-old question was asked... What does your work/life balance look like? ...