It takes a surprisingly small container to hold what a person accumulates over nineteen years at a job. A single copy paper box will generally do it, and into that box goes the mug from a 2009 charity golf scramble,
Time to Talk about “The Rizz”
I have, in the last week or so, participated in two separate conversations in which the phrase “the rizz” was deployed, unironically, by adults. Adults who are, every one of them, well past the age of forty. Adults with mortgages,
Three Days Off, Four Days of Consequences
Another long holiday weekend is upon us in the US of A, and with it comes the predictable cascade of news coverage about gas prices, TSA lines, and highway traffic that somehow surprises us every single time. The holiday-meets-weekend alignment
Go Along to Get Along
Go along to get along. It travels easily, this expression. It presents itself as wisdom rather than warning: a pragmatic acknowledgment that harmony requires some measure of personal concession, that belonging has a cost, and that the prudent professional learns
