Ask the Expert: Is it hard to get a mortgage right now?
I want to buy a home in a neighboring state, but I understand it is hard to get a mortgage right now. True? Yes and no. Lending standards have tightened…
Month: September 2020
Suburban families look into moving as crises impact city life
Suburban families look into moving as crises impact city life, work The kids love their schools. Mom’s family is nearby. Dad works in the city. So the…
Makeup for guys? Well, it’s here
Every human wakes up sometimes with bags, uneven skin tone, or dark circles. Women are used to slapping on the makeup. Men just endure. But, now will men…
Tenacity
Tenacity is not a spontaneous flowering of good character. It’s doing what you were trained to do. It manifests not in those whose training spared them…
When endearments are not endearing
A 10-year-old calls an adult woman or man ‘sweetie.’ Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Children should not use these endearments with older people. It is the…
Time to listen, build rapport
Building rapport with co-workers and customers produces long-term career benefits, experts say. It’s time, they say, to listen up. To get what you want in…
Quote: The origin of Twitter
The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what…
Goodbye Segway: We hardly knew you
Segway stopped making its Human Transporter in July. The company ended up selling just 150,000 of the scooters, mainly to warehouses, police departments,…
Hack reveals meddling could influence election results
A handful of attackers in mid-July managed to get control of VIP accounts of politicians in a bitcoin scam. But, what if the hackers, instead asking for…
Twitter hack highlights underground trade in handles
In mid-July, hackers rocked the internet by taking over accounts of high-profile Twitter figures and using the accounts for a bitcoin scam, among other…