"Finding Time" by Mary Alice Anderson

I find this article particularly encouraging on a personal level because I've been in many ways lucky enough and in some few ways wise enough to delegate widely in my library.  So not surprisingly, I think it's great advice.  I've had a much harder time, though, accepting the first consequence of delegation on my own family's homefront, that is, when someone else does the job, I lose control of it.  It's inevitable, and I've had to relinquish that control, knowing that the way in which chores are done (or even if certain particulars never get done at all) has got to be negotiable in order that a more balanced, co-operation can emerge.  As Ted Nellen recounts in his article, "Morphing from a Teacher to a Cybrarian," only out of chaos can order develop.