The best ways to express gratitude
How much do recognition and reward matter in business? According to research by consultant O.C. Tanner, 79 percent of employees who quit their jobs say…
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Unexpected: Mortgage delinquencies fall
In March 2020, when COVID-19 shutdowns spiked unemployment to 15 percent by the second quarter, a strange thing happened: Delinquency rates on consumer…
How escape room games evolved to meet a crisis
When states shut down for COVID-19, one emerging entertainment business nearly shut down, too. But the escape room business has redefined itself (at least…
Ask the expert: How should I finance home renovations?
Home improvements and repairs are as inevitable as death and taxes, if you own a home, you’ll have to spend money to maintain and improve it to protect…
Home prices up on surging demand
The housing market is booming and experts predict further growth in 2021 and continued record home price increases. According to Forbes, surging buyer…
Lean into discomfort to embrace personal growth
It’s a natural human impulse, if something causes discomfort, we avoid it, and if we can’t avoid it, we seek to resolve it. When we squabbled with our…
Leave the sweet for your sweetie
It has become a bit of a stereotype all by itself: The guy with the big personality or the older lady who mothers everyone. Somewhere along the line they…
Never touch a Knight’s beard
In medieval Europe, if you touched a knight’s beard, you were going to have to face him in duel at dawn. His beard was his honor, according to the Chicago…
Take out, shopping, errands — all ready for an e-scooter
For short-distance errands in the city, electric scooters and e-bikes might be the wave of the future. It’s called micromobility, and it represents a…
Is that a hedgehog on the kitchen table?
Arguably one of the greatest ways to procrastinate — or, er, take a well-deserved break — is by playing with the photos and videos on our phones….