Walking through the mall near my apartment is as quiet as walking through a graveyard. Where, I ask, have all the people gone?  Worse, where are the stores?  Nordstrom, Payless and Radio Shack have disappeared and Sears, given the few people wandering the aisles, seems to be hanging

Ingrham’s, a large publishing and distribution company for  writers’ works, sent me an email yesterday.  They were raising rates for their services.  The attachment was a long, single spaced document with several pages of contract changes.  I am careful about material like thi

Since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, the stock market has jumped to new highs.  The president attributes that rise to his win but there is another explanation.  As Liz Ann Sonders, a strategist of Charles Schwab, explains, companies are anticipating a ri

Last December,  Sequoia Capital chairman, Michael Morris told a reporters his tech venture capital firm would “never lower our standards”  to hire female partners. (“The Girl with the Gadget Tattoo,” by Erin Griffith, Fortune, June 15, 2016, pg. 68.)  Given that women are h

I’ve read so much about the way technology is changing our lives that my eyes glaze when I learn another app is about to revolutionize the work place.  Mostly the trend is to eliminate jobs.  China, for example, has long benefitted from a large population and an abundance of cheap

Recently, I deplored the way Twitter symbols had infiltrated our language.  (Blog 8/26/14)    But I was an innocent.  I’d no idea how emojis, those little symbols used to clarify an electronic messages, had exploded into a complete language seen not only on social networks but