I was inspired by a blog post written by my friend, Anne Kearney (article here). She discusses the small urban design experiments found...

“Who are you here to see?” asked the nurse who was monitoring the door to the nursing unit. The elderly woman standing in line ahead of...

The public servant was given probation and community service. In my estimation, it was a slap on the wrist for heinous crimes. Fifteen...

“I value expediency above all else!” my client declared proudly. As a busy person with a lot on her plate professionally and personally,...

’I’m sorry you feel that way’ isn’t an apology!” she yelled at me. Well spotted because I had zero remorse. I believe the best reason for...

“You’re nothing but white noise to me.” The topic was jerks and this was the winning slam. I was speaking with a group of women who are...

Woo-hoo! The three-year journey to the publication of WorkJerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues completed on June 14th...

Here we are, shattered in the aftermath of another spate of horrific mass shootings in our country. It’s nearly impossible to remain...

Some of you will remember the 1976 Heinz ketchup TV commercial set to the music of Carly Simon’s “Anticipation.” It captured our...

If you're a fiction reader, TV or movie fan, you've no doubt had the experience of falling in love with a character who was also...

We were an hour out of Portland on our way to Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey when a flight attendant asked, “Is there a physician...

Given my demographic, it’s no surprise that I was enchanted with Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary, Get Back. I remember watching the Ed...

It was my mother’s 98th birthday and I had ordered a special cake. Paper butterflies were to fly out of the box when it was opened. Since...

We have watched in horror as the destruction of Ukraine and its people continues to unfold on our screens. If you’re like me, you’ve been...

In the United States, Women’s Day has been observed for over a century. The suffragettes of 1908 marched in New York City for the right...

The tide was going out, but one feisty wave unexpectedly came running up much farther onto the sand. This necessitated a scramble to...

In Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues, I write about the Non-stop Talker and the Dramatic. Although I placed...

I responded to a reporter whose query contained an unattributed quote for me to react to. The person quoted had gone off the deep end...

Your run-of-the-mill narcissist may be self-absorbed but not necessarily destructive. This more benign version could throw a Richter...