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If you’re in the work world long enough, you most likely will experience both good and bad bosses. Most of us have witnessed all the iterations in fiction, on the screen and in the news. These days there’s buzz about Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and whether she really has been a terrible boss who berates her staff and yells too much. Furthermore, does that make her a terrible potential U.S. President? I’m not sure since I don’t know how much is true or simply hype that comes from disgruntled staff members.  However, since we’re first talking bad bosses, let’s tick...

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Most of my friends, who love to travel, talk about taking trips now, while we are relatively healthy, can walk (fast), climb stairs (maybe, mountains), and breathe in thin air at high altitudes (Denver, Machu Pichu, Bhutan). It’s a notch on the bucket list, a term that’s been bandied about for years and tends to be overused. However, it expresses our wishes before the inevitable…our demise. Truth be told, we’re counting down the good years, in my case, of travel that we may have left, perhaps. It might be 10 to 15 or at best 20 years before we’re ensconced...

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I’m up and at ‘em. The day starts when my sister, who has been staying with me for six days to help me clean out my condo, reminds me that I need to get going to drive her to the airport. Fact: There is an ice storm happening right outside my window. It’s a rare occurrence in St. Louis. Fact: For those who know me, I’m a terrible driver. One of the reasons I am excited to move to New York City is….I won’t have to drive. Fact: Driving on ice is not driving. It’s sledding. Fortunately, I have an...

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Here’s how to cope with those you allow into your room, a metaphor for your brain & life, according to business entrepreneur and author Ivan Misner, Ph. D Ivan Misner, Ph. D In recent years, there’s been so much talk about ghosting, the not-subtle art of figuratively expelling people from your life by withdrawing from all communication with them. They write, call, email or text, and you fail to reply. Some are more persistent than others. It may take multiple efforts before they get that you want them out of your life. Seems harsh, doesn’t it? We think so.  However, entrepreneur...

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New York City has charmed and delighted me since I was a 13-year-old, and my father took me there for my first visit. That was more than a half century ago. From then on, every time I visited NYC, I felt that catch-your-breath thrill at the sight of being in its environs. For a girl raised in St. Louis, Mo., Manhattan was a jumble of all kinds of unexpected wonders:  Buildings reaching to the sky; fast-moving, underground subway rides; the Staten Island ferry and the majesty of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor; the wonder of looking down and...

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