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October 31, 2014
Julie Rath: 3 Style Mistakes You’re Making Everyday – and How to Fix Them
People often ask me – usually at parties – if I walk around every day critiquing peoples’ outfits. While I can turn my critical eye on and off, and I certainly never go up to anyone and give them my opinion unsolicited, there are certain mistakes that I see consistently. If you’re someone who cares about how he looks (and I assume if you’re reading this article, you are), read on forthree common errors and how to easily nip them in the bud.
1)Loafers with your suit– I get it. Traveling in lace...
October 30, 2014
John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Church
Awkward whispered conversations with my wife at church during service after driving separately and arriving at same time.
Me: (under my breath) “Did you have your cell phone on?”
Rebecca: (Under her breath) “My phone died. Why?”
Me: “I texted ‘L-O-V-E’ and didn’t get a response from you.”
Rebecca: “Oh.”
Me: “Not even a “L.”
Rebecca: “Shh”
Me: “Is something wrong?”
Rebecca: (Shakes her head exasperated)
Me: “If your phone hadn’t died would you have written back ‘L-O-V-E’ or at least ‘L’?
Rebecca: “Shhh”...
Carlton Weddington: ODRC’s Escape Goat
On September 12, 2014 the headline news in Ohio and trending nationally was that the Chardon High School shooter had escaped prison along with two other Ohio prison inmates. The best dissertation that most of the mainstream media in Ohio could come up with was that T.J. Lane struggled to adjust to prison after being convicted for killing three students and receiving three consecutive life sentences.
Depending on whom you ask, Lane’s short lived escape success was no big feat. Inmates will tell...
Josh Bowen: 3 Reasons Why Soreness Doesn’t Mean Results
Back when I first started working out, I loved the feeling. When I first started working with clients, I loved hearing them tell me about it.
Soreness.
One of the first questions, in the old days, we use to ask clients who had been working out on their own, “are you getting sore still.” With little to no scientific research to back up our clams, we obliterated body parts into submission, thinking that everyone need to be sore to get results.
I was wrong.
To this day, I have attracted a client bas...
October 29, 2014
John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Ebola
Ok. For what it’s worth….and I’m not a doctor or anything ….but I am very intuitive about things like pandemics and mass diseases. And I am starting to get a much better feeling about this whole Ebola thing and how it is going to play out.
I’m predicting in a few days we can all go back outside again.
Probably.
Just a feeling. But it’s a pretty strong one.
The exact same feeling I got with Avian Flu and SARS just before we found out they weren’t going to cause our extinction. So there’s even a tr...
October 28, 2014
John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Fundraising Emails
They say death and taxes are the only two things you can rely on. But that was before Democratic Party fundraising emails. I am beginning to think these are even more reliable than the two long established standbys. And certainly more constant.
I am a proud and life-long Democrat and intend to remain that way.
And hope my party feels the same way about me. Right now — a little over a week from Election Day — I average receiving about 40 desperate to exciting fundraising emails a day from the na...
Erica and Matt Chua: He Said/She Said: Budget Travel Gripes
After spending nearly three years on the road, we look back on all that we put up with to save a dollar. Were all the long bus rides and sleeping at airports worth it to keep the expenses in check?
HE SAID…
You’ll never hear me claim that there is a better way to travel than budget travel. Getting as close to the locals’ spending as possible is the best way to understand how their life is…and isn’t that why to travel? Not only the experiences, but also the differences between experiences in dif...
October 27, 2014
John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Game on, Hawking!!
Smarty pants astrophysicistStephen Hawking has joined Facebook and said in his first post “I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit.”
Oh brother. Whatever.
Well, you know Mr Hawking, you may be the smartest man alive but a lot of us on Facebook have some pretty brilliant moments ourselves. I am upping my scientific and intellectual Facebook game. Be forewarned. And remember, it’s OK to hate the player but...
Saul Kaplan: On the Internet, What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
This is the fourth of a seriesof conversations published on theTime website, authored by myself and Nicha Ratana,with transformational leaders who will be storytellers at theBIF10 Collaborative Innovation Summit
in Providence, RI.
Ethan Zuckerman’s job is to see the Internet for what it is.
As the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and the author ofRewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, Zuckerman studies civic engagement within digital infrastructures. He has made the ca...
October 24, 2014
John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Fridays at 51
What makes Fridays nice at age 51 is the vague but pleasant recollection that 15 or 20 years ago something really fun –maybe even edgy and exciting– used to happen on Friday nights.
Even though you can’t quite remember what it was.
You realize that was a long time ago and isn’t going to happen tonight. Because you are too tired and have to pick up the kids later.
But the fuzzy memory that something fun used to happen to you on Friday nights still sustains you.
And is enough to still make you “tha...
