Whole Time Planners: In the Beginning

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It's About Time (blog)

The idea for Whole Time Weekly Planners really started asserting itself on a significant birthday, one ending with a zero, the kind that makes you want to forget about the linear implications of time. Out with the personal digital assistant -- it fosters a mind-body split and implies that time is a technologically produced commodity. There comes a time when a gal needs purely organic access to time, no digital interface. So she goes shopping for a new weekly planner, only to find a selection of grid systems devolving into rectangular increments so small she thought she’d never freely spend another moment again. So she starts drawing and reading and making, thinking about what she’s really trying to accomplish. The result, Whole Time Planners, is an invitation to reconsider your relationship to time, or maybe just to spend some time coloring. Enjoy!

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My name is Kelly and I have a nice regular day job, where I am fairly serious about deadlines and schedules. I make Whole Time Planners to “chillax,” as my daughter calls it.

I grew up in the Ozarks, the daughter of a tennis playing archaeologist-turned-family therapist and a philosophy professor who specializes in time. I’m up to two master’s degrees now, one in journalism and one in community planning, and have followed a spiral career path. I spent the first part of my working life as a newspaper reporter, PR person, and science writer, then went back to school, did a stint in the non-profit and faith-based world of refugee services, and am now back to working in a science-based environment. My perspective is a whole lot broader than it used to be, and I think that alleviating some of the worst living conditions in the developing world will require more hope than science alone offers, and better program evaluation than religion generally incorporates. I live in a blue bubble in a red state, am happily married to a professor who cooks to relax, and am blessed with two kids and one dog.

Updated December 6, 2009