Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

It has occurred to me that even though I rejoined the workforce over 5 years ago, I have not made many posts about what it has been like for me as a working mom. It can be a bit schizophrenic,  described in an earlier post - The mind of a working parent . The challenge is still the same: work/life balance, especially if you have children who are growing up in an increasingly complex world, moving at an increasingly faster pace. Here are 6 things I believe that help keep me on track: 1. Determine the scale of missed dinners. Know before you even start a job, what you are willing to live with.  Imagine you are a family that had dinner at the table every night, decide in advance how many missed dinners you'd be willing to accept before you became unhappy. Does the company support flexible work schedules? How many hours per week are you expected to work?  Would you be comfortable missing 1 dinner per week? 3? In my case, my parameters are the amount of sleep and gym sessions

I recently went on a business trip to Las Vegas - I had not been there in almost 14 years. While I was quite exhausted, (even at the start of the trip), I was not so tired that I could ignore the opulence around me. Below are the paper cranes hanging from the ceiling near check-in. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the ceiling and walls. Everything screamed wealth and luxury. Even the soda bottles were swanky, no regular bottles for this crowd, no sirreee.    In the picture below, not sure you can see, but at the front of the hotel there was a wall of water. So even though the water may be recycled, just the mere thought of the energy and water required to make that go, made me feel a little bit sick. Those little signs in normal hotel rooms that say "We are trying to save our planet, please hang linens if they do not need service", didn't exist here. And those bazillion plastic bottles that conferences supply the attendees? Only the gar