Have you seen postings on LinkedIn reinforcing that old aphorism: You join a company but leave a boss? I used to think this was true. At one point, I felt like Murphy Brown, only instead of a rotating parade of crazy assistants, I had crazy bosses. I quoted that aphorism a lot, but I stuck …
When I was a small child – first grade, at most – I spent a lot of time touring open houses with my parents. They weren’t in the market to buy, they just liked to look and dream – much like people do when watching House Hunters (which I just typo’d as House Hungers, which …
[Here's one of the columns I wrote but didn't post. A little dated now, but not really.] Why didn’t they step forward at some point in those 40 years? Why didn’t I step forward at some point in the last 40 years? When I was ten, I was attacked by a distant cousin who was …
When I visit friends, I often notice unread stacks mail, catalogs and New Yorker magazines. Subscribing seems aspirational – as if just the subscription confers membership in an intellectual and intelligentsia strata that requires a certain amount of time and effort to join. Little do they realize that everyone really has time to read the …
A new colleague was teasing me the other day. “I don’t dare open the door for her,” he teased, “she’ll get mad at me.” I wondered at first what he was talking about. Then I realized it had to do with a comment I had made earlier about my overnight bag. He had offered to …
