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Thursday, August 07, 2014

Quackser Fortune may have been on to something

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When I was young and went to a lot of movies – there were not, after all, that many channels on TV and there were NO reality shows – one of ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

What’s in a Word, Redux

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Well, every once in a while – okay, maybe that was every once in a once - a reader asks me whether I ever follow up on any of my posts. Fo...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Imagine what new avenues the drone will open up for Martha Stewart

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Personally, I think she got a raw deal, and that orange should never have been Martha Stewart’s new black, but I must say that, when Martha ...
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Monday, August 04, 2014

The Existential Trucker: I truck therefore I am

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In the course of my business online travels, which involve a considerable amount of buzzing around looking at tech stuff, I came across the ...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Hunter-gatherers: who’s for the paleo diet?

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Forget gluten-free. Forget vegan. Forget vegetarian. (You have to be kidding…) Nope, these days, the way to go is paleo. I had vaguely h...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Forget everything you know about “fine Corinthian leather”. (There’s new skin in the furniture game.)

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I am in the early planning stages of a home make-over that will involve the acquisition of some new furniture. I haven’t given much though...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s DeMoulas

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Visitors to our fair (and, let’s face it, occasionally unfair) city, turning on their hotel TV’s to catch the local news, may well be scratc...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Endangered species: jobs that are slip sliding away

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In the extremely unlikely case that I will be coming up with another career for myself any time soon, thanks to CareerCast and the Bureau of...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

See you in the funny papers. (On not going to Comic Con.)

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Well, looks like I missed Comic-Con International in San Diego ( sexual harassment and all – although, in truth, the description of the “b...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

“Weird Al”: marketing genius

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As someone who’s spent her career in the technology sector, and and as a marketer, I want to take a moment on this sultry summer day to salu...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Toys will be toys, especially if you’ve got $$$

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If you, like me, are already sitting around wondering where summer went, and how you can salvage some of the dwindling hours we have left in...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Nice way to derail your future, bro

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Every few months, whether we need it or not, it seems that there’s some teenager putting a stake in the heart of his or her future by doing ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Put a needle in this Haystack, why don’t you

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As someone who has actually owned a car in a densely occupied urban environment where the parking ain’t easy, I well understand the frustrat...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Flightmare

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Perhaps because I was never a super heavy business traveler, I escaped my full time career with relatively few travel horror stories. Oh, ...
Friday, July 18, 2014

My kind of town, Chicago is

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While I am, first and foremost, a Worcester girl, I am also, quite proudly, “half Chicago,” the town my mother hails from. (Actually the tow...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Shocked, I’m shocked. (Not really.)

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The other day, I had lunch with a friend, a woman my age. Like me, K is a widow. Unlike me, she’s been a widow for more than a decade, while...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Hoosiers take on student debt.

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Over the years, Pink Slip has opined on a few occasions about student loans. So as the fifth anniversary of my first student borrowing post...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Twitter Police

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For all the power and glory of the Internet – hey, look at me, I’m blogging – there’s an abundance of downside. The dissemination of untrut...