Marking TimeWritten by M J Plaster
"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in past, you still have an entire tomorrow." ~Denis WaitelyIf time were nothing more than an incidental commodity, it's doubtful that following phrases would clutter our everyday speech: A stitch in time… Lost time… Found time… Time is money. Compress time… Time stood still. The time of my life… The sands of time… Real-time… Killing time… As time goes by… Father time… Time is on our side. Time worked against her. Time is greatest leveler in universe. He or she who uses time wisely wins. Unfortunately, many have no grasp of time: they're always late, annoying daylights out of punctual—at best. It's interesting that those with no conception or appreciation of time seem to get leftover goods time and again. Yet, they never seem to make connection. Some even refuse to wear a watch! (I don't like jewelry—whine, whine, whine!) From Whence We Came The heavenly bodies—the stars, sun and moon—served as our first watches, and they predate sundial, first major advance in timekeeping, by eons. The watch's primary function remains to keep track of time. Modern watches originated as functional, portable, mechanical, clocks. 19th century watches were often carried in pocket, and included a protective cover, similar to cover on a woman's compact. Often, they were attached to clothing by a chain. Wristwatches entered marketplace in late 19th century as a woman's fashion accessory, and credit goes to Cartier for popularizing wristwatch with leather band.
| | “Work From Home Mothers – Family Strategy”Written by Shannon Emmanuel
This article is free to reprint as long as all links and authors credits remain intact. Courtesy copy of publication would be appreciated. __________________________________________________________________I am typing on computer, trying to keep up with flood of emails and programs that require my attention, when my 19 month old comes to me for fourth time this morning calling ‘potty!’ I rush upstairs to bathroom when I here doorbell…my friends children have arrived as usual, since I care for them four days a week while their mother takes off for an adult world I hardly recognize. It is 7:20 am. Breakfast follows, I set them up and dash to computer again to finish what I started, but then four year olds are fighting and one year old has dumped her applesauce on carpet. I determine that office environments were created for a reason. It’s 7:35 am. Since I am paid to care for these children, I cannot devote much time to my other business during days they are in my home. But that does not stop me from feeding my own children peanut buttered bread for breakfast and sitting them in front of TV from 6:00am until 12:00 on my ‘day off’. As you can see, or know from experience, working from home in any capacity is a change to your family’s life no matter what business. But as much as I would love to dote on my own children and spend hours baking and coloring and folding laundry (RIGHT!), I, like many mothers, have been faced with choice of returning to typical ‘working world’ and passing my children into someone else’s care, or juggling to bring in an income while caring for them myself. Our strategy has been for me to develop an online business while maintaining an income we can survive on by babysitting. The babysitting is temporary, and not my first choice, but I do love children I care for, and now that we’ve all adjusted I am going to miss them terribly when we move on.
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