Performance Reviews? Gen Y Craves Them — Not The Rest Of Us
Image by rochelle, et. al. via Flickr Who actually likes performance reviews? Gen Y, turns out: Ms. Reder agrees that employees are usually thirsty for feedback. She has observed that those new to the...
View ArticleRead My Book! Watch My Video! Authors Turn YouTube Promoters, Ready Or Not
Make that video -- or else!! Image by ephemera assemblyman via Flickr So much for the garret. As authors today now know, or quickly learn, whether you can produce a publishable manuscript is only one...
View ArticleSize 14 The New Ideal For Women — Thanks To Mad Men
Image via Wikipedia Here’s an idea — bigger women rock. From the Daily Mail: All women should aspire to be a size 14 with buxom, hourglass figures, the new equalities minister claims. They must not be...
View ArticleAre Your Neighbors Your Friends?
Image via Wikipedia I loved this story in today’s New York Times by my friend Christine Haughney: In a city where friendships and romances traverse boroughs and continents, of the guests who had...
View ArticleSnooki Who? Reality Stars Demand Big Bucks For Being Themselves
She's the short one...Image by Getty Images via @daylife Laughing all the way to the bank, reality television stars — who begin as no-names hired for peanuts — are demanding real TV money, reports...
View ArticleWhen I Grow Up, I Want To Be An Old Woman
Image by pedrosimoes7 via Flickr I live in an apartment building that is, frankly, something of an old age home — filled with people in their 70s, 80s and 90s. There are days I weary of gray hair and...
View ArticleWhat I Found Behind The Fridge
Image by shrff via Flickr Because that’s how I live….a handwritten note from the year 2000 from Jean Harris, legendary for shooting and killing her lover, the famed inventor of the Scarsdale Diet. I...
View ArticleShe Killed Eight Of Her Babies — And The Husband Had No Clue
Image by peasap via Flickr This is the story in France right now, with the BBC reporting there are already 40 journalists in the tiny rural town of Villers-au-Tertre, near the Belgian border. The...
View ArticleNope, Not Yet, Dammit
I will not yet say goodbye. Sentimental old fool, yes. Also — technophobic. Have to sit down and figure out how to migrate Broadside somewhere else; one T/Ser says “easy” another said, not. Don’t have...
View ArticleWaving, (Not Drowning), Good-Bye
Get me rewrite! Image via Wikipedia Away I go, 900+ posts later… Whatever will I do with all this newfound empty time? I started blogging here July 1, 2009, quite literally shaking with fear. Who on...
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