Struggling with how to explain this to someone I don’t know well. A couple weeks ago I received an email from someone who wanted to schedule a “pick your brain” session.  And we all know how I feel about those (see “Brains Are Not for Picking” on that topic. I’m considering republishing it as “You Aren’t  A Zombie – Stop Picking My Brain!”).  But this is a new person and I don’t know him at all so I agreed.  We chose a Wednesday for lunch.  My daughter wanted to have a friend over and I thought it would be fun to have them go to lunch while I was at my meeting – get them out of the house, etc. So we planned that with the other mom. Tuesday this person calls and needs to reschedule so we move it to Thursday. I get it […] Continue reading