The little things you can do to bring joy your work
Today we’ll talk about three little things you can do to bring joy to your workplace: warmly greeting others, taking breaks, and wearing your smile. How do you greet others…
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Strong because I am weak
A few weeks ago, I was once again headed to my regular neurology appointment. I dread those appointments because it’s a hike from the car to the office. Often, I…
68 pearls clasp oval & rounded on the ends
Pearls. When my mother was a baby, her dad took a long string of natural pearls as payment for a debt a local jeweler could not pay. My mom told…
Get the behind the wheel or call an Uber, but go to this show
Alfred Uhry’s play Driving Miss Daisy started as off-Broadway fare in 1987, winning the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It wasn’t long before Hollywood took notice and the Oscar winning…
Things I love, part 2
I am fortunate enough to have so much in my life that I am grateful that I simply could not consolidate it to one column. I wrote a couple of…
Let’s get those endorphins pumping!
“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, and it’s a new life for me / And I’m feeling good, I’m feeling good.” – Michael Bublé Show of hands ……
Strange play in an even stranger restaurant
By DANIEL SHOCK A Seat on the Aisle I had exactly two black professors when I attended Indiana University in the early 1990s. Both women. Both had high expectations for…
The art of eavesdropping
My name is Janet … and I’m an eavesdropper. The one question I get most is, “Janet, where do you get all the topics you write about?” After 18 years…
What the puck? Octopus-gate!
By ABBEY BROWN DOYLE Guest Columnist I’m doing my normal procrastinating from going to bed by mindlessly doomscrolling on the ‘Book, and I come upon a hockey video. I see…
The first will soon be the last for stoplights
Carmel may soon become the only U.S. city of 100,000 population without stop-and-go lights. Well, almost. There will remain a signalized intersection at Main Street and Range Line Road and…