I admit it: after filing a blog I invariably check to make sure it's been posted. Then I check again, often several more times, to see how many people are reading it. You couldn't do this having written an old-fashioned newspaper or magazine piece, which introduces new questions both for...

If you live in the real world and work full-time -- which is to say you're neither a student nor an academic -- summer is just another season, the one in which you see more of your colleagues' body parts than you might care to. Sure, the weather shifts, the...

When I was invited to blog for the Huffington Post, I smugly predicted that I would blog at least once a week -- probably twice a week. No problem. Well, since I first launched I have written a grand total of 2 blogs, an average of one a month. It's...

Without the promise of a summer vacation just around the corner, none of us would survive the month of June. Every year is the same and every year I fail to see the juggernaut coming: graduation ceremonies, field days, music recitals, family picnics and class cocktail parties. Then it's time...

First, a plunge into the swampland of political incorrectness. Humor me while I venture a toe into the ever shifting tides of what is -- and what is not -- all right to say aloud in the workplace. The social repartee, late night banter and performance evaluations freely spoken. That...