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Thursday, October 09, 2014

What’s shakin? Bacon!

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I heard somewhere that the one food item that vegetarians found most difficult to part with was not the lofty filet mignon, or the humble ha...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

If you want to be Disney, well…

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I once worked for a small software firm that had it’s eyes on the prize of becoming “the next billion dollar software company.” (Actually...
Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Please make sure all personal items are stowed in the bicycle basket, take your feet off the brakes, and prepare for landing

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Throughout our many years together, my husband and I had a couple of prime travel destinations. Foremost over the years was New York City, t...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Brookstone to the rescue

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Pink Slip has been a long-time fan of Sky Mall , and was quite disturbed last spring when the rumor mill had it that they might be closing u...
Friday, October 03, 2014

I just had to laugh…

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I suspect that it will be quite a while before I stop getting mail addressed to my husband. In truth, I don’t want it to stop. I like lo...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Something sure gang agley with our Secret Service

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Over the years, I’ve worked in plenty of chaotic, dysfunctional organizations – organizations where things slipped through the cracks, where...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

But do they accept Medicare?

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One of my cousins is currently on a spectacular transpacific cruise, with a mid-cruise stay in Sydney, a circumnavigation of Australia, and ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Maureen Rogers, County Whatever, Ireland

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I have some friend in Ireland with whom I exchange Christmas greetings. When I send their cards off, I am always a bit amused that a coupl...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

A degree in six degrees with Kevin Bacon

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When I was in college, back in the day when a college degree didn’t cost as much as a sprawling house in the burbs, I heard a number of inte...
Friday, September 26, 2014

T.G.I.F. (Pink Slip scrounges up a last minute post.)

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The unthinkable has happened. Pink Slip , which always has enough posts stockpiled for at least a day or two ahead, has skated out onto th...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Gag me with a spoonful of creamed corn. (And turn up your nose at turnip, while you’re at it.)

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There was a fun piece over on the Huffington Post in which Yagana Shah listicle’d 13 childhood foods that her fans nominated as the ones th...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

If only I had Photoshop, who knows where my business might go

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Last week, I came across an article about a lawyer in California who’s likely to lose her license for six months because her web site had al...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Glockenspiel Redux

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There’s nothing I like better than reading about a family feud. It’s not that my own personal family is one blissful, life-long love fest,...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Tourists

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While my bucket list contains a couple of places I’d like to visit, I have to confess that – thanks to my narrow Euro- and U.S. centric focu...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Holey Moley (Bring me the head of Fulton Sheen)

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If the 20th century was the American Century, then the 1950’s were the American Catholic Decade. No longer a swarm of unwashed immies, “we...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Walmart’s right: you really can’t have your PR guy caught lying on his résumé

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How, in this day and age, can there be anyone in any position of seniority at all in an American corporation who somehow thinks that he or s...