In my kitchen, I’ve hung a old-school chalkboard where, every two weeks, I hand-write the upcoming schedule for our household: choir practices, driving lessons, volleyball games, conferences. I spell everything out in giant multi-coloured chalk so that when the members of my household want to know what’s happening, they look at the board rather than asking me. Sometimes it even works.
My colleague, Claire Gagne, the Maclean’s special projects editor, came up with her own rather genius system for domestic itinerary coordination, and she describes it in a charming essay for Maclean’s. Her story is a relatable portrait of modern family life, the promise of technology to make life easier and the ways in which it just makes things worse.
–Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
