For the third time in a month I am away for a long weekend. On each of these occasions, I turned on the away message for email, chat and voice mail. This is what one does in modern society. We have made a contract with one another to always be …
Image via Wikipedia Call it an office or a tool shed or a garage, but the Man Cave has become something of a mythical figure in daily married life. It is something to aspire to if you don’t have one or escape to if you do. It is decked out …
I used to eat at McDonald’s instead going to church. I used to sit with one of my best friend’s in the world and talk about just how our lives were turning out in the latter half of high school. We would talk about the books we were reading and …
There were two man roads that led into my home town: East Washington and Bell. In the middle of town, they were one block apart but by my house, which was off of Bell, they were at a distance of about a mile. They are mostly responsible for making a …
I used to put my hours on a time card. I used to slot it into metal container made especially for that purpose. I didn’t punch in because that would have required too much investment on the machine that actually made the punches. I would just carefully scrawl the time …
Image via Wikipedia To a large extent, my wife bases her day on how good her breakfast is. To be sure, she has a weekday regimen of fresh bananas, yogurt and Puffins (a decently healthy cereal that has the namesake animal on the front). But, on the weekends, all bets …
Because we aren’t done living just yet. Posted via email from The Throughput
I have been asked a number of times in the last few weeks the following question: “What would make this interesting for you?” It is such a disingenuous question. It is like asking, “What can I change about what I have just said so that you don’t run out of …
It’s your fault when you don’t answer email. It’s your fault when you require phone calls in order to advance the conversation. It’s your fault when you don’t check in with the social networks that collaboration is happening within. It’s your fault when the people that talk to you don’t …
In thinking about budgets in tight times, it may be easiest to think about all of the things that we are paying for and then see exactly what it is that we can cut back on. It makes sense that we wouldn’t spend much time at all agonizing over what …