It turns out that sitting in a rental car beside the speaker at a drive-through restaurant is a bad time to try to figure out where on the door you can find the switch that rolls down the window.
It was entirely unremarkable. As a newsman, that is usually the worst possible condition. Events that are really good or really bad tend to be far more noteworthy. But when Dawit took the field for his first tee ball game, it was entirely unremarkable.
Great Clips, which is a hair salon chain so successful that it does surveys when it’s not cutting people’s hair, has put together a list of the greatest and worst hairstyles of all time. And the sheer effort they were able to expend in doing so proves that society, as a whole, is spending WAY too much time thinking about hair.
On Monday afternoon, it was a big deal to me that my third-grader has trouble catching pop-ups in baseball. I was so happy that he had pulled his B+ math grade up to an A- by the end of the school year. Those things seemed so important. And then a huge tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., and wiped out the Plaza Tower Elementary School.
Last week was a great week for Obama-haters. They’ve been writing and calling me to gloat: Obama’s mired in scandal, they crow. His agenda is stalled. He’s sleazy, tyrannical and incompetent, heading up a corrupt administration – just like we’ve been saying for years. Not so fast.
Columnist Loretta LaRoche says she eventually came to realize that she had put much too much energy into trying to change or manipulate events and people so that they resembled the movie in her mind.
In the decade of the 1950s, WWI veterans were reaching their 60s and 70s, which meant there were many military funerals. Then and now a part of a military funeral is the playing of taps on a trumpet. During that decade I was a high school trumpet player.
My sister loves Facebook. I know that a lot of people do, but she takes it too far. She posts personal information all the time! She even posted about an argument she and I had – something I considered to be a private conversation! Now, our entire family knows about it and I’m really embarrassed. I know it’s her page and I can’t control what she posts, but I think that was really rude. What should I do?
House Republicans on Thursday called on Hillary Clinton, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency to surrender to Karl Rove.
Spring bird watchers don't have to wait till dawn to look for feathered friends. There's one in the night sky every spring evening. It's Corvus the Crow.
As policymakers look for ways to generate revenue to fund the growing costs of the criminal justice system, an insidious practice has taken root in courtrooms across the country.
There has been an enormous amount written about how to manage virtual teams. In fact, I have previously written on it a few times myself and teach a class for managers on the topic. Today’s column, however, is a little different. Rather than discussing the management of virtual teams from the manager’s perspective, I’ll be discussing it from the remote worker’s point of view. The reason for this change in headset is, that as managers, we can better lead those working for us if we understand their needs and issues.
Rather than react, remember to use one of these simple phrases.
