The final 25 suggestions for an aspiring stoic. Grab the smooth handle on things that come into your life. What will you grab… the one that will help you or the one that makes you angry or hurts you. Every person is an opportunity for kindness. It can be contagious and carry forward. You […]
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This a long post but worth reading. You wouldn’t wish this on your worst enemy. A report by Jessica Roy, a reporter with the LA Times. A stolen wallet precipitates a reporter’s years-long fight against identity thieves — and a system that doesn’t care and won’t help. 2019 was a pretty exciting year for
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Does employee tracking help or hurt or have unintended consequences? From the Jacksonville Business Journal (October 2022) Some companies exhibit productivity paranoia especially for remote employees and thus they have expanded the use of tracking software, but the move may cause harm. Sources show that about 37% of employers added on increased use of employee
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The ideas below are suggested by tax accountant Vinay Navani of WilkinGuttenplan. Discuss them with your personal tax professional to see whether they might make sense for you. Consider putting any losses to work for you If you have experienced declines in some investments, a process known as tax-loss harvesting could enable you to sell
Obsidian App – Part 2 Just so you don’t get lost in the weeds, let’s review why to use this app. Obsidian is an app to help writers, researchers, and learners keep their notes in an app that uses a powerful system to link your ideas together. Once your personal knowledge management begins to grow,
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Longtime friends and creative collaborators Josleen Wilson and Brittany Barker share the same birthday—54 years apart. Ms. Wilson, 83 years old, and Ms. Barker, 29, became friends through a writing-mentorship program nearly a decade and a half ago. Now, not a week goes by without their chatting, the two say, and they share meals at
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No one likes calling customer service. It’s a familiar scenario: You keep pressing “0” or yelling “Representative!” to reach a live human, only to wind up waiting, possibly for hours, entertained by a dreadful loop of elevator music. The 800-number nightmare has become increasingly frustrating during the summer of lost baggage, as delayed flights and
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By Dave Roos, an article in How Stuff Works. If the brilliant late-1980s TV show “MacGyver” has taught us anything, it’s that you can repel a gang of thugs, break out of prison, and build a functioning spacecraft with little more than a paper clip, a C battery, some twist ties and an empty tube
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Does Recycling Actually Make a Difference? What about Landfills? Everyone knows that person who refuses to recycle because they say it doesn’t actually do anything. Know anyone like that? Does recycling actually make a difference to our environment? The Good News About Recycling Perhaps you’ve heard — or made — the argument that putting more
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Homes and Mental Health We all know the rigors we had to endure for the past two years or more. Having to spend an inordinate amount of time, i.e. 24/7 in our home has sometimes been a drag on how we feel. Working, eating, socializing, relaxing, sleeping, dealing with noisy or nosy neighbors, helping
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