I’ve been sitting in front of a blank Word document for about forty-five minutes, and Times New Roman is not getting any more fashionable. And though I’m seldom one to fallback on self-reference, I found it impossible …

All my life, I’ve lived in a family within a neighborhood within a larger neighborhood within a city that people refer to as a neighborhood to make it sound more tight-knit. Fortunately, though, too much “community” is …

No member of the civilian labor force is perfect, so it follows that every worker-bee is bound to forget the occasional item at home. It’s a mistake of varying consequence (I pity the Ghostbuster who leaves without his …

In the 1997 cult hit Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, two ditzy heroines claim to have invented the Post-It Note in order to impress their former classmates. A good choice in office supply: just consider the ubi…

Not much to blog about the office today, but I just had an interesting conversation with Mrs. Boss. It was one we’d come close to having before, as she initiated it each day on her way to the parking lot: “…