Over the weekend, we took a tour of Laura Plantation, about an hour down the Mississippi River from our house. The tour includes a walk through one of the old slave cabins, and the guide talked a bit about not just what a slaves life on a sugar plantation would have been, but also what…
This is the world we live in, it’s not enough to not be online and, therefore, have no risk of embarrassment. Not being online is kind of suspicious in itself, and people are looking: While digital footprints are considered to be a liability, if managed well they can be an asset. Digital footprints can showcase…
It’s also an important “soft” skill for your career, and in short supply. Helene Moore, PsyD, MAPP, clinical health psychologist at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, says that anyone can train themselves to be a better listener. What’s more? Becoming a better listener is sure to have a positive impact on…
First of all, it’s always good to keep this kind of list handy. Stuff happens and sometimes you need to try and get back files that were removed accidentally. Secondly though, as many of us move to SSD hard drives for the speed, it’s worth being extra careful when deleting from those drives: The reason…
If we want to encourage people to get help for mental health issues, we have to not also turn around and use that against them. Seems to me this process may be doing exactly that to potential lawyers, a group with a higher rate of mental health issues to start with. “The most stressful question…
If you haven’t seen the announcement: Seems to me that trying to follow a blog, or other website by following their Facebook page just got about impossible. As a page owner, it also seems to me that spending much time trying to share my content on Facebook also just got about pointless. It’s clear, despite…