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I would like myself much better if I didn’t know who Jon and Kate are. And that they appear on a reality TV show with their eight children. And that they have, apparently, some significant marital problems for which they…

It’s not that I don’t ponder the big questions: Why am I here? What does it all mean? Did I remember to unplug the iron? I certainly do and will be happy to share any insights that I uncover as…

Sign of the times, perhaps, but everybody seems to be mad about something – the economy, the stock market, the unemployment rate, the auto industry. Or mad at somebody – Bernie Madoff and the greedy AIG bonus-snatchers, most recently. Once…

I hope and trust that we have moved safely beyond the doctrinaire “dress for success” era, and not a nanosecond too soon. Any female who worked in an office in the 1980s carries the memory of way too many boring…

If you’ve lived in Georgia long enough, you can probably recall the days when Atlanta’s old slogan, “The Next Great International City” seemed more like wishful thinking than a blueprint for the future. It had a nice optimistic ring to…

If you’re looking for bad news, you don’t have to look very hard or very far: a statewide unemployment rate north of 8 percent and a budget deficit that may top $2 billion; plants closing or relocating; retail operations going…

If anybody’s interested, I think I might have a solution for businesses and government entities caught in the economic crunch, trying to do more with less. Not “the” answer, perhaps, but “an” answer. It’s a two-word suggestion: customer service, a…

On the day I went to purchase the fabulous new phone that puts the entire technological world at my fingertips – or will, once I master the intricacies of that teeny little keyboard – and allows me to view Tina…

You know those jokes people used to makE when a child went off to college or some other significant expense presented itself? The ones about having to work until they’re 80? They’re not so funny anymore. Events in the financial…

Some years ago I was catching up with an old friend who had recently left newspapering. He was the classic ink-in-his-veins news junkie, and it was impossible to imagine him in any other profession. I figured he would be the…