Busting the Myth of Work-Life Balance by Susan Olding

Keep reading today’s re-blog ’til you get to this:

“For ‘balance’ implies stasis – and stasis is antithetical to the creative life.”

After that, you can thank the author for her wisdom :-)

QWF Writes

About a year ago, I was invited to give a talk to some graduate students at Queen’s University about what was billed as “work-life balance.” Sure, I said. Why not? That should be easy.

There was only one small problem. For me, “work-life balance” is an unattainable mirage. I am the farthest thin...