From the monthly archives:

December 2009

You’re fired! And — is the ‘at will’ clause the cause of the bad boss syndrome?

December 24, 2009

A friend — I’ll call her Suzie (and more about people not wanting their names used around lay-offs in a future post) — fell victim to a recent round of layoffs in San Francisco.
I say victim, but she felt less victimized after she left than when she worked there.
Why?
Simply put, she was not her job. [...]

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You’re Fired! Same as when you’re retired, if you’re your job

December 17, 2009

A direct result of my first firing is that I moved to the other side of the world. This is quite a mind blast, if I think about it rationally, which I confess I don’t very often.
The thing is, I find it difficult to get to grips with the fact that I gave up a [...]

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Stamp of approval for made-from-scratch eggnog (see recipe) with fondue

December 14, 2009

[Not forgetting the conversation and conviviality. And the stamps were real. And this must be the world's best eggnog recipe.]
Today was the day of the eggnog revelation.
Eggnog can be sublime.
All it took to turn me from an eggnog “no thanks I’ll skip it” to an eggsnog(ger) was a glass of the real thing. Thank [...]

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Princeton crab, Maverick’s surfing — and leave the mother

December 13, 2009

A foghorn’s haunting call. A person — this is amazing to watch — skidding across the water, way out back beyond the lines of tied up boats, but inside the Princeton harbor wall. The zipping figure is kite-boarding.
And there’s a second person, on a sailboard.
The kiteboard’s sail is a bulging splash of red and [...]

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So, what is The Yum-Yum Club? (Slideshow)

December 4, 2009
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Reflections on scorpions and eating them

December 1, 2009

I wonder if there are women in China who have pregnancy cravings involving scorpions. The eating of them, that is.
There’s no reason to imagine this would not be the case given that scorpions, it seems, are something of a delicacy in China. Or at least a popular snack with some in China.
Unless, of course, the [...]

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