All posts for the day November 15th, 2011

No Gossip

Nearly every office has one person endlessly hanging on someone else’s cubicle partition rattling off (or entirely fabricating) her version of today’s office drama. Working with a gossip is annoying, but very easy to circumvent with this two-step strategy. Step One “Do not feed the bears.”  Never tell the gossip anything not contained in the office memo […]

Cooking Wine: Why Not

This begins a short series on food. The first segment is “Cooking Wine: Why Not”.  If I ever edited a piece of yours, you know the missing question mark means something significant Some of my followers would rather follow me to the kitchen than the computer screen. As modesty would have it, I am a […]

Ye Olde Road Trip & Train Ride

Part IV of the Vacation Savings Series. If you missed a segment, start at the beginning. If I have to pull over… When I say road trip, which one do you remember? “Mom, he’s looking at me!” “Don’t make me pull over!” “Are we there yet?” “I have to go to the bathroom.” “We are […]