One problem with working at home is that you don’t get enough feedback.
But wait, you say, isn’t that the whole reason to work at home? LESS feedback? For most people who work in regular jobs, a little less feedback from…
Here’s a Handy Tip for those of you trapped at home with your children: Teach ‘em to cook.
Kids love all the measuring and pouring and stirring and sampling involved in food preparation. Most of all, they love the big messes…
Sometimes, it seems, the world is out to get us.
The stars line up a certain way, or our biorhythms are off, or our luck simply runs out. Then one minor catastrophe after another descends, hammering us with problems and expenses, pushing us to our emotional limits.
After a while, we’re able to look back upon these travails and laugh. But when we’re caught in the midst of them, laughter is out of the question. We’re too busy trying not to weep.
Imagine that our corporation is on the verge of introducing a new product, a beverage that could take the world by storm. Then, as so often happens to good ideas, the Marketing Department gets hold of it. The response probably…
Throughout the 20th Century, prognosticators predicted that Americans would enjoy more leisure time. Technological advances would mean shorter workweeks, they said, leaving laborers free to frolic and muse.
Those forecasts turned out to be dead wrong, just like the ones that…
During the recent turn-of-the-millenium binge, we heard a lot about the greatest inventions of the millenium (the printing press) and the greatest person of the century (Andy Kaufman), but it seems to me folks were looking too far afield. The…
It has come to our attention here at the beehive-like corporate headquarters of The Home Front that you, the unwashed public, know as much about first aid as your average honeydew.
You may feel confident that you could handle any emergency,…
One of the drawbacks of working at home is you can’t call in sick.
First of all, there’s no one to call. You’re it. Unless you want to inform your family that you’re ill and, believe me, they already know. (Especially if you’re a guy and tend to whine a lot.)
Secondly, there’s no such thing as a day off to be sick when you’re the parent-housekeeper-chauffeur-cook-gardener-and-chief-bottle-washer.
Here’s a comforting message for all of you who have children under the age of 6: It gets easier. As children get older, parents move from the trenches to the rear guard, in charge of logistics rather than patrolling the…
Among TV commercials, one rings the most true: Two slacker dudes are in a store with limited money, trying to decide between beer and toilet paper. They choose the beer, then respond in unison to the question, “Paper or plastic?”
We…
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