“Garden Corner” — the perfect name for this corner of my living room. During the long months of COVID lockdown, I took advantage of the extra time I had and decorated all of the walls in our large apartment (which we’d moved to just six months before the pandemic hit). One section of my living…
Pandora is one of my favorite “tools” for taking mini-breaks throughout the day. This app on my Android phone (which I downloaded from Google Play Store) is an internet radio service that allows me to listen to music whenever and wherever I am. Listening to music while I work makes it easier for me to…
Taking mini-breaks can lower stress AND increase productivity. Taking a break when we were kids was easy. Most of us probably had long stretches of time with “nothing to do” in the summer or on weekends. And if you’re like me, you learned early on that if you had too much free time and complained…