Faith, Fiction, Friends

It showed up as a Facebook memory, a story I hadn’t thought about in years. I’d posted in August of 2009 on my blog and linked it from Faceb...

In 2014, I hit a wall at work. I was marginalized. I was being paid for work far below my experience and capabilities. Wanting to get up in ...

It’s   Poetry at Work Day , and I find myself thinking about names in the workplace.       I’ve been long fascinated with the names of chara...

I was working in communications for a Fortune 500 company. A large portion of the day-to-day work was meetings. We had a team-based cul...

It’s Poetry at Work Day 2020, and I went looking for wisdom literature about work. Many of us have had experiences with works, jobs,...

I might have retired twice from the same company. I officially retired in 2015, and I’d had given a year’s notice. I could have con...

For a long time, I had what several of colleagues called the most interesting office at work. Because I was a speechwriter, I was expec...

Think back 25 years (if you’re old enough). It sounds almost quaint today, but email was just beginning to come into its own. At the co...

Layoffs were coming. The big announcement from the CEO was circulated by email. It was a masterpiece of vagueness. It didn’t say how ma...

It happens to most of us, at one time or another in our careers. You’re called into the boss’s office and discover there’s an HR person...

It started with a phone call from a friend. “Did you see the job ad in the paper?” he said. “What job ad?” I said. “The city sc...

A conflict in the workplace is not uncommon. A workplace conflict battled out on Facebook, however, pulling in co-workers and the compa...

There’s nothing like a good crisis to demonstrate how little control an organization has. There’s also nothing like a good crisis to un...

It was the days before PowerPoint. Holding our overhead transparencies, three of us sat waiting to be called into the management meetin...

The worst view I ever had from my assigned office at work was of the building’s designated smoking area. I had the most coveted type of...

For most of the 20 th century, the structure of corporations was based on the technology of mass production. It was a command-and-contr...

I was sitting with a woman in the Human Resources Department. There had been a reorganization of our department, part of a general resh...

I was sitting with a woman in the Human Resources Department. There had been a reorganization of our department, part of a general resh...

If there is such a thing as a poetic movie, the 2016 film  Paterson   is perhaps the archetype. The actor Adam Driver plays a bus drive...

Today we celebrate Poetry at Work Day – the day each year we bring poems to work, share them with colleagues, read them aloud in small ...