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Grappling with the death of Heather Armstrong: Where does Dooce leave us now?

Penelope Trunk

Heather and I both started blogs in 2002, we both got in trouble for writing about our coworkers, we both wrote about our bodies, our pregnancies, our money, and our divorces. I realized he was my best source of information for how Heather thinks about her blog — I always picked up when he called. But she killed herself two nights ago.

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Could a Union Be Coming to a Cubicle Near You?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Could a Union Be Coming to a Cubicle Near You? Clete Daniel , professor of labor history for Cornell University, agrees. My Dad was a blue-collar worker.

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How successful people deal with dead ends: sidestep and reframe

Penelope Trunk

There are a lot of ways I can tell there’s a labor shortage for restaurants. If I let them have dialogue in every blog post I would have nothing left to say that’s interesting. Normally I make lunch for Nino and Z but it would be taking another big step for me to just make lunch for Nino so he says no. I ask Nino.

Food 98
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How Your Dad Influenced Your Career

On The Job

Tomorrow on my Blog Talk Radio show , I'm going to interview Dr. Stephan Poulter, who I wrote about last week regarding his take on how mothers influence us in both our private and professional lives. The kids learn early on how to read people in order to survive.” Passive: “This father showed his love through his actions. .

Career 100
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Could Being Conscientious Make Unemployment Worse?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Could Being Conscientious Make Unemployment Worse? In my family, if you werent working, it had better be because you were dead or at least unconscious in a ditch somewhere.

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Repulsion is part of diversity

Penelope Trunk

So maybe you should just stop reading my blog, but probably you should just not let me take care of your cat. Confining animals in labor. Don't shield yourself from complex thinking. If you think killing my cat was absolutely, hands down a terrible decision, then you probably don’t have the same moral code I do. Shooting possums.

Food 111
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An Interview with Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist

Lateral Action

Hugh's gapingvoid blog has enabled him to achieve success as a cartoonist and artist without going down the traditional gallery or newspaper routes. At the end of the day, good art is still an expensive, labor-intensive, pain-in-the-ass thing to make. Traditional galleries are expensive, difficult and provincial places to do business.