It seems impossible to a get a real person on the phone line when you call a customer service number. First of all, automated systems are really annoying. Even more annoying, too often they don’t even have the option you need. When this is the case you need a real person to talk with. The Patient...
How would you like to get paid for doing nothing? Sound like a dream job? Well, seven hundred teachers in New York are doing just that — getting a full salary to do whatever they want or nothing at all. Teachers who have been charged with anything from insubordination to sexual misconduct are sent to a...
When you’re shopping for holiday gifts, you may find yourself having to buy presents for the office. This can be a minefield in which you make one false move, and your very job could be at stake. Your first impulse, if there is no grab bag or Secret Santa, may be to avoid the whole issue...
My husband and I were sitting in a doctor’s office and I happened to glance over at the TIME magazine he was reading. I have no clue what the article was about, but a statement caught my eye. I read it once, then a second time, and proceeded to think about it in the following days. It...
In a way, I always envied people who didn’t have a television. As much as I hated to listen to them brag about it (as people without TVs often like to do), I kind of wondered what it would be like to detach completely from that particular section of pop culture, to give up my main...
I remember a time when supermarkets and shopping malls were the only kind of shopping I knew. Even though I had a car and could go to as many places as I wanted to shop, I put convenience over quality, and would always stick to the kind of shopping that could be done in a single...
“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.” – Horace As a woman who strives to live each day to the fullest, this quote nicely sums up my philosophy on life. Life is out there, waiting...
As someone who struggles with depression, I’ve found that keeping a diary (or, as I like to call it, my “Depression Journal”) really helps me take a closer look at what I’m feeling and why I’m feeling that way. For those of you who cope with depression as well, this article will help you examine why...
