Miscellaneous

Once I tried out to be a contestant on a game show.  The program was a revival of, You Bet Your Life, and featured Bill Cosby as its host.  Sadly [...]

Does your sock drawer say something about you?  Recently I noticed that mine was really packed with socks.  Not just pairs but also a few strays.  In further surveying the [...]

From the first day I met "Greg," I could tell that he was high strung.  Any little problem would put him  in a panic.  This was a challenge as he [...]

A recent survey from the University of Toronto found that 50% of the (American) respondents routinely take work home with them.  And those people say their "homework" sometimes or frequently interferes with [...]

It's great that more and more businesses are offering free wireless Internet.  You almost expect to the see the service in coffeehouses.  I have to admit that I laughed when [...]

Recently I received a mailing from a nearby arts group.  I'm always interested in what groups are doing as well as how they market themselves.  The brochure was very fancy [...]

Has pride hurt your career or your relationships?  Sometimes it can be easy to let the ego call the shots and determine your actions.But consider taking a different path.  Listen [...]

Get the inside scoop before you see The Nutcracker.  Dazzle your friends with the trivia you'll learn.  There's also a lesson here in perseverance as a show that once was [...]

Now is the time that so many of us look back on the past year and consider changes that we can make in 2010.  I like to focus on certain [...]

In my TV news days, I did a lot of stories about holiday shopping. (One year my holiday meal consisted of a order of natchos shared in a smelly live [...]