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I will speak to almost any room about the miracle of local news. However, one annual event strikes f... Read More

Want a Promotion? Lift Your Pinky Nov. 13, 2025

You're throwing a dinner party for a bunch of tech bros. You know there will be fist-pumping and ch... Read More

Down With Light Bites Nov. 08, 2025

I get the same question at every cocktail event. When I kindly wave off a cater waiter circling with... Read More

My Favorite Dental Appointment Nov. 07, 2025

If you asked people where they were and what they were doing when they had the first experience they... Read More

When Your Co-Worker is a Robot Nov. 06, 2025

Am I being paranoid? In the same week that Amazon announces it is firing 14,000 workers, The New Yor... Read More

An Ode to the Perfect Ride Nov. 01, 2025

A humble roller coaster exists, a sacred jewel of a ride that we as a culture don't talk about enoug... Read More

Mild, Multilevel Me Oct. 31, 2025

I have nothing against doctors. Some of them have saved my life. Some of them have damn near killed ... Read More

Give Your Career a Rest. Hibernate Now! Oct. 30, 2025

You know that feeling you get at work every day around 1 p.m.? That feeling that comes after a morni... Read More

Three Strange Paths to Not Thinking About You-Know-Who Oct. 25, 2025

Georgia Garvey

Are you, like me, kind of freaking out a little bit? Do masked men patrol your city streets, snatchi... Read More

Stop Trying to Sell Me Plastic Souvenir Cups! Oct. 25, 2025

It's fall festival season, haunted house season, trunk-or-treat season. Amid the 50/50 raffles, soft... Read More

The None-of-My-Business Column Oct. 24, 2025

Perhaps due to my previous incarnation as a traveling know-it-all, I keep getting requests for a col... Read More

The 'Chunk' Guide to Career Success Oct. 23, 2025

When it comes to building a career, there's a lot we can learn from animals (and no, I'm not talking... Read More

Adults Need To Use Their Imaginations Oct. 18, 2025

Have you been in touch with your imagination lately? I don't mean by hatching conspiracy theories or... Read More

The Little Resume That Couldn't Oct. 16, 2025

NO! No, you will not get the job. No, there is no reason to schedule an interview. No, we will not b... Read More

Halloween Costumes That Will Offend No One Oct. 11, 2025

It used to be that Halloween offered a release valve on the year's serious discourse, a chance to in... Read More

Toddlin' in Chicago: Government Overreach, Circa 1972 Oct. 10, 2025

Chicago, I'd heard, was a toddlin' town. In fact, I'd heard it repeatedly from a woman in the seat b... Read More

What Would Erma Bombeck Do? Oct. 04, 2025

There's a quote going around from Erma Bombeck, the late, legendary essayist: "When humor goes, ther... Read More

Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity Oct. 03, 2025

We keep hearing that Artificial Intelligence may one day decide to improve the planet by getting rid... Read More

A Warning for Your Morning Oct. 02, 2025

It's the end of the workday. Did you accomplish everything? Did you accomplish anything? Did you mo... Read More

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