“The hardest part of all this is my loss of security and my lack of control over my own finances and future. I feel vulnerable and completely powerless to change any of this. It angers me that other people are determining my fate. Especially since they are doing such a pathetic job of it.� ~Dawn...

Holy mackerel! Connie Bensen has one hell of a comprehensive list of tasks for which an online community manager needs to be responsible! I mean, if this is a contiguous list, this describes quite an experienced and senior person, that’s for sure. What this shoes you is that the job of OCM is not ...

Image via Wikipedia Holy mackerel! Connie Bensen has one hell of a comprehensive list of tasks for which an online community manager needs to be responsible! I mean, if this is a contiguous list, this describes quite an experienced and senior person, that’s for sure. What this shoes you is that th...

SOME PEOPLE Are their lives that miserable!So we are visiting the New Noodle place in the Greene collective art project by the jafabrit clan and it's PACKED, but we manage to find a table.There were only four chairs and we needed one moreAh hah! the next table has a spare oneSo my son asks if we cou...

  •   Comet Lulin Approaching Earth . Space scientists from the University of Leicester are keeping a close eye on a ‘green comet’ fast approaching the Earth - reaching its nearest point to us on February 24, that's tomorrow!      Comet Lulin wil...

It sucks to find out you're getting laid off. It sucks a lot worse to find out you're getting laid off because a lawyer yakked about it at high volume on a commuter train. Seems that a fella—a law firm partner!—riding a crowded train from DC was talking on his cell phone so loud that a n...

So how do I tell my partner that a recently acquired haircut is...bad? So I'm a pretty low-maintenance person. I moved recently (after finding an EXCELLENT hair cuttery), and was forced to find a new barber/stylist. I found one that I could literally walk to, so problem solved, right? The haircut wa...

Recently the New York Times explained how hard it is to live on $500k a year. Twice! Now the paper reports: nobody's paying for business lunches any more! Is this just a made-up thing? Yes. After all this time it still is quite amusing how the Times, the biggest, most anal-retentive stickler for acc...

Since the economic downturn, many business meals are ending with a cold, hard calculation of who is worth paying for and who isn’t....

I am pretty laid back in the classroom. I joke with my students, I talk about football, my weekend activities, share personal anecdotes. I like them to do the same. I often wear jeans to class. I don't really care what they call me (although since I have graduated, if they ask what to call me, I say...