• Fantastic article on workplace bullying

    I came across this article about workplace bullying on Time magazine’s Business and Money site. Before now, I’d never seen in print what many, many of us have commonly experienced throughout our careers. “When Good Things Happen to Bad People,” by Gary Belsky, nails it. “A lot of bullies are keen analyzers and manipulators of… Read more

  • Facial

    Me and the boys plus DS’s girlfriend Jess at the dinner table tonight and DS asks me how my day was and I say it was pretty good and that I got a facial and DS and EBD snort and laugh and I’m not sure what tiny naive part of me thought that they wouldn’t.… Read more

  • The smiley-face trap

    Every email, every post, every Facebook message I answer, I consider using periods only, no exclamation marks, let alone duplicates, no feigned elation or concern for making someone feel good about him or herself. No grins, winks, frowns or tongues. So I stand here and look at what I’ve written and wonder if I do… Read more

  • I think I’ll stop curling my hair

    I kick off my blue-gray 5-year-0ld Tiger Asics and delicately stuff my left foot into my new black and silver New Balance Fuses. The new shoes are a 7 and a bit too big, but the 6 1/2s they had there were a tad too small and bigger is better (no matter what men would… Read more

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  • . . . and she’s OK!

    Fortunately, my guest was feeling fine on Sunday and we ventured downtown and had a fairly good time. The arts show was neato and, well, the music fest must have been at a later time because it looked as if there should have been something going on, but not much was happening. I try .… Read more