Sure, My Work Is Flexible. It Wraps Around My Entire Life.

Comes today a report from the White House about workplace flexibility, and good luck to everyone involved. I’m all for it. Workplaces ought to be like secretarial pools: fluid, able to shift work around evenly, allowing anyone the chance to run out to a school play or a daycare emergency at a moment’s notice. I’m …

One Thing I’m Not Running Away to Join

So the circus is in town. Clowns spilling out of tiny cars! Death-defying acts! Stilt-walkers! Lions and elephants! Yay! We’ll be bringing our little guy the moment he’s old enough! An icon of Americana! Or, no. Call me a grouch, call me a killjoy, but I hate it. I hated it even as a little …