Nov 24, 2020
I remember years ago, I had gone back to my hometown to visit my family. They wanted to throw this huge party and feast to celebrate. It had been a long time since I saw my grade school friends and people that I knew.
Years, actually.
So when the time came for everyone to hang out, I was a bit embarrassed. I was...
Nov 18, 2020
One of my students came up to me once and asked me, “Thalia, how do you know when to go for the ask?”
Whether this is about asking for a job, or asking for someone to buy what you have--this is probably as tricky as protocols on asking someone to move in with you or deciding how not to offend the neighbor who has...
Nov 11, 2020
So my kids used to go to sleep kicking and crying. They’d throw a hissy fit for over an hour, and I’d try everything in my might not to make them even more upset—often with little success. Of course, this meant that I wasn’t sleeping much either.
Everyone hated it.
Then one day as I was driving my newborn to the...
Nov 4, 2020
You know what’s sometimes really weird about trying to find a solution to our problems?
Is that we tend to hear the same things over and over again. I felt this way once when I was really looking for ways that I could get more things done without simply adding more things to my day.
I realized that I wasn’t making...