All Microsoft All the Time: RIP Outlook Tasks

All Microsoft All the Time: RIP Outlook Tasks

Longtime 20+ year Outlook user over here (with the exception of Gmail for personal correspondence and Google calendar for The Together Family), and I’ve been in a decade-plus battle with the busted feature called Outlook Tasks. Never heard of it? Or tried it and...
Together Trips with Together Tweens/Teens: My Top Ten Packing List

Together Trips with Together Tweens/Teens: My Top Ten Packing List

For almost the past decade, each summer I haul some combination of my children and husband and best friend to my home state for Maia’s Maine Camp. We load up the 2013 Honda Pilot with bikes, paddleboards, beach toys, my old crockpot (for real) and fleece and raincoats...
Our [Revised and Refreshed] Family Command Center

Our [Revised and Refreshed] Family Command Center

Strangely, I haven’t written about Command Centers in a long time around here. In fact, the last images I can find that I posted were here and here. But something about the first day of the month in May being a Monday always makes me excited for a fresh start! Or is...
Peek at the Week: Using Google to the Max

Peek at the Week: Using Google to the Max

In one of my year-long Together Leader courses, we got deep on weekly planning and the power of Google last week. I mean, we went full on nerd-fest with a group of school leaders in rural Idaho, complete with screen sharing and deeply pondering how using technology...
Thinking Ahead: When do YOU Look to 2023?

Thinking Ahead: When do YOU Look to 2023?

Has anyone else hit the “I’ll circle around in the new year” mode yet? I think I’m THERE. If my Amazon order history tells me anything, it is that right around Halloween, my brain actively starts scanning into 2023. I don’t have it in my calendar to order the new wall...