Two hundred hours–that’s a busy month for some of you; a slow month for others. To maintain some semblance of privacy, I will leave ambiguous the number of days it took me to hit this threshold. I will also let you all decide whether defining life milestones in billable hours is a healthy practice. So…
Tag: Working from Home
How I’m Feeling on the Eve of My Return to Work
“I’m in the hospital and will be offline for the coming weeks. My water broke this morning (two months early). The doctors are monitoring me and trying to figure out if the baby wants to come out.” It feels like a lifetime ago when I sent this abrupt out-of-office message from the triage room of…
What It’s Like Being Pregnant in a Pandemic
When I got pregnant, I asked my partner to read the most-recommended pregnancy books out there and summarize the key takeaways for me in a memo (hey, I wanted both of us to be involved in the research, even when it concerned my body!). The data-driven pregnancy guides we perused were clear about what foods…