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Corporate Firefighters

October 21, 2012 By Kevin Buckholtz 1 Comment

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Kevin Buckholtz’s workplace is not on fire. So why are his co-workers always “putting out fires”?

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Featured Content, Hands On, The Good Life Tagged With: anxiety, business lingo, buzzword bingo, calm, co-workers, competence, corporate missions, corporate speak, corporate world, crisis management, economy, emergency response, EMTs, finance, fire fighting, firefighters, good word, heroism, leadership, looking busy, McKinsey, mission statements, putting out fires, taking action, team work, The Office, trust, urgency, work/life balance, workplace issues

When Your Parent Dies

August 27, 2012 By Joe Cardillo 2 Comments

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What gifts of care or truth are worthwhile to the dying, and to those left behind?

Filed Under: Cancer, Families, The Good Life Tagged With: addiction, bitterness, cancer, caring for parents, caring for the terminally ill, chemotherapy, communication, death, dementia, Divorce, dying, emotions, father, genetics, grief, honesty, life, male caretakers, men caring for the terminally ill, men caring for their parents, mother, orphan, pain, parents, Parkinson's, passion, peace, relationships, reproductive organs, Responsibility, self-harm, side effects, Suffering, terminal illness, truth, urgency

“When he sees Ivan in a future that can’t exist, he has a beard. That detail makes my heart hurt.”

June 12, 2012 By the Editors Leave a Comment

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This is a comment by Jesse Stoner on the post “I <3 My Family: Poems by Kids”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: children, death, friends, grief, honesty, humor, kids, poems, poetry, Sex and Relationships, urgency, writing

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