Arar Han is the co-CEO of Alert-One, a personal safety and technology firm. With all apologies to Jimmy Buffet, not everyone wants to waste their retirement away in Margaritaville. The best part about being a retiree is choosing how to spend your days. Seniors can choose to work as long as they wish, on their …
Those of us who work from home are like members of a special club, minus the secret handshake and clubhouse. We don’t fit traditional business norms and not everyone gets us. We know our corporate counterparts don’t understand what it’s like to work from a sofa or a spare bedroom, instead of from a cubicle …
Julie Jo Severson is ready for something new…she’s just not sure what it is, yet. Read more from Julie Jo on her blog. Each fall, I take on the role as matchmaker. I line up a bunch of singles and do my best to pair them up. I admit, sometimes I bring two together that aren’t perfectly matched. …
This essay originally appeared on Jennifer’s blog, mamawolfe. It’s too early in the school year to be doing this. To be tying a knot, night after night, hoping to strengthen my line. Willing myself to lengthen my line, to make myself a better person. A better teacher. Friend. Wife. Mother. To push myself to grow, …
Author Karen Gordon tells the sloppily dressed truth about working from home. My favorite futurist, Faith Popcorn, predicts that most workers in the future will have multiple income streams. They may contract with one or more companies as well as have one or more home-based businesses. This system not only protects people from losing it …