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Dear GenMeh; I don’t know what to say or how to keep a conversation going when I meet people. I even have trouble with friends and that awkward silence, not to mention my paranoia that everybody thinks I’m a loner loser. Are there any tips on better social interaction for dummies? -Tongue-tied At first glance,…
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A friend of mine was remarking recently about how much she admires people with the courage not to let quotidian concerns stop them from following their dreams and how she wishes she could be this way. Considering this was a woman who arrived from Romania with only two suitcases and a couple hundred bucks in…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Read the first installment here. Photo by spike55151 You’ll never get what you claim to want if you don’t truly believe that you deserve to have…
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Carrie Hooks, Jenny Chalk and Cami Thompson are three Cleveland-based twentysomethings with a wryly pragmatic (and utterly post-modernly American) approach to dating. The friends founded the Board of Love, a three-member roundtable devoted to using a business-minded focus to help Thompson find Mr. Right. They hold formal meetings, have business cards and recruit edifying guest…
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Photo by jasonEscapist When I was in grad school, I worked as a teaching assistant. One year, my job entailed leading workshops on team building and group dynamics for freshmen business students. One of the questions I frequently had to field was about what to do about group members who didn’t pull their weight. My…
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List Served is a weekly feature wherein I present you with an ordered grouping of (at least tangentially) related points. I love lists and the internet loves ephemeral minutiae. It’s all good. Photo by kristofabrath A Chronological Listing of My Elementary Through Junior High Arch-Nemeses by First Initial C (told me I was going to…
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Dear GenMeh; Help! I have my annual performance appraisal next week. Not only do I suck at meetings like this, I’m pretty sure that telling my boss that I spend every lunch hour fantasizing about quitting and running off to the Dominican Republic won’t go over too well. I kinda hate the job (a lot),…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. This is the first installment. Photo by Sister72 No one cares as much as you do. Whether it’s your wedding plans, your grandfather’s death, your favorite…
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Inquiring minds want to know. <br /><br /<br /> Psst….if you’ve voted no, help might just be on the way. Of course, help is a relative term.
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List Served is a weekly feature wherein I present you with an ordered grouping of (at least tangentially) related points. I love lists and the internet loves ephemeral minutiae. It's all good. A Complete Accounting of The Books Currently on My Request List at the Public Library […]
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