Every Thursday on my other blog (Scheir Madness), I have a “Thankful Thursday” entry. It’s my little effort to cultivate a habit of thankfulness despite the challenges, disappointments, stress, and demands of my everyday life.
In the spirit of “Thankful Thursday” I offer this list of reasons to be thankful for working from [...]
Seems to me that the most lucrative independent business around could very well be the Jersey Shore-based ice cream man. Somehow, when I’m at the beach and that Pavlovian bell rings, my kids get 2 ice creams and somehow I’m out six bucks. I figure that if the ice cream [...]
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Flexible workplaces with flexible hours and days are long in coming.
A quote attributed to the ubiquitous Rick Castle’s Mom, in the comments on literary agent Nathan Bransford’s blog:
“How someone can sit at home in their underwear, staring into a laptop and call it work is beyond me.”
If only she had a nanny cam…
-Cheryl (who’s currently fully dressed, and she’s even wearing shoes!)
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On Fresh Air this week, journalist Margaret Talbot talked with Terry Gross about the performance enhancing drugs that are finding their way into our schools, newsrooms, and workplaces. (Talbot’s article “Brain Gain” appears in the April 27th issue of The New Yorker) in Some students, professors, and even writers on a deadline are taking provigil and ritalin, [...]
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One down, one to go…remind me again, why am I self-employed?!
-Cheryl