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Dear Mr. President: I have good news! You know how there is a great need for more jobs all over this country? Well, I've found one place that really needs more workers--and fast! And the best part about it is that this need is right in your own backyard--well, it's in...

Now here's a dirty little secret. Canadian phone numbers are not identified as such when listed in ads, on the internet, or wherever else they might appear. They look just like US numbers--same kind of 3 digit area codes, followed by 3-digit exchange numbers, and...

Way back when, when I was just out of college, I was known for building mountain ranges. Back then my biggest masterpieces were the mountains of clean but wrinkled clothes that never seemed to make it to the ironing board in advance of my needing them. There was Mt....

Just two days before Valentine's Day I went to a book presentation and signing by John Gray, the original Mars and Venus man...that is, author of the series of books that began with Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. He has a new book out--Why Mars and Venus...

Two months of Sundays is two too many. Having just come through those Sundays in less than two weeks, I'm more than ready for a break. Good grief--two four-day weekends, one right after the other, thanks to Christmas and New Year's being on Tuesdays, is more than any...

Thank heavens I didn't cancel my subscription to the local newspaper--something I keep thinking I should do because I can't seem to keep up with the reading of it. One day this week I read the most welcome news headline I've seen in a long time: Spring Hasn't Sprung....

That's it! I need a soigneur! Two years ago I was with a friend who, after reading about Lance Armstrong's then latest assault on the Tour de France and the pivotal role played by his soigneur, decided he needed one of those too. I helped him write a killer ad to find...

I just got a letter from Delta Airlines. Pure gobbledygook. Do they teach this in schools? It is apparently the language spoken at Delta. A sterling example of words strung together that say absolutely nothing, but obviously designed with the hope of placating through...

It's almost over, but not quite. It's New Year's Day and some important decisions need to be made and acted on--today--and not one day later...and just when I thought the pressure was off. It's about food, and apparently what we eat today is going to affect the whole...