The pentagon has a zombie survival guide and there’s cocaine in the toilet: This week’s wacky news Happy spring. We are knee deep into the allergy season and a majority of us are sneezing up a storm. It may be that all that sneezing, coughing and sniffling […]
As I walk out of Grand Central station and head to work, I am bombarded with advertisements with all sorts of wild claims. Some juices cure you of Vitamin D deficiencies and some airlines have enough legroom that you can stretch out and not develop deep vein thrombosis. […]
Hop on Pop no more and other weird, wacky stories of people getting out of sticky situations It’s been a long week. A long weekend in that I spent four hours shopping for a dress to only come home and find the perfect one (brand new […]
I am not a big party person. I like to go dancing at the clubs and go to a bar and have a few cocktails. Throwing a party in my house so that people can stomp all over and I have to then clean up afterwards….well, not so […]
What’s an Easter egg hunt or a beach without a dead body: This week’s weird and wacky news Even thousands of miles away, there is a slew of wacky news for me to stay on top of. I experienced my own moment of wackiness when I tried […]
New Yorkers terrorized by a rat and a nine-month attempted murder: this week’s weird and wacky news for me to obsess about Close to two decades ago, I became obsessed with monitoring the news. I vividly remember the television coverage, and that in particular of the […]
When your job weighs you down: the psychology of saying no to your boss Just last week two workplace colleagues were having an intense discussion where one said to the other “I can say no to you, but I can’t say no to my boss.” I flinched a […]
Some wacky life-lessons for all ages from this past week’s weird news Being on the road three weeks straight meant that I could not keep up with my weekly wacky news column. However, the world didn’t bother to pause in its wacky tracks. We now have CNN news […]
The horrible vice of water: condescending concern in the workplace While sitting at an intense meeting, I got very thirsty. Everyone had been listening intently to my words as they would be the guiding principle going forward. Well, some people were listening. Some were sewing a loose button […]