Topic: what I'm reading

Happy staff brew better beer. It's obvious when you think about it. A team that feels respected, valued, and heard shows up differently....

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Have you ever seen a celebrity—someone whose work you genuinely love—and completely blown your shot at being normal? Yeah. Same. It just hap...

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Rock 'n' roll has a long history of protest music. From Woody Guthrie's Tear the Fascists Down to Rage Against the Machine'...

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Fifty-three today. That's either mid-50s or early-50s depending on how generous you're feeling. I'm choosing the latter. Staying...

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When I was a kid, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood wasn't background noise. You sat on the floor. You watched. You waited for him to come th...

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"I think you just hit somebody." That's what Mitch Goldstein said to me one cold morning in the winter of 1990. It was our sen...

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What the hell is going on at the Department of Labor? On January 10, the DOL posted this on X : "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage...

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Arsenal–Tottenham is one of the nastiest rivalries in sports. If you don't follow English football, think Eagles–Cowboys, Yankees–Red So...

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Something has gone sideways when the Chair of the EEOC is publicly urging white men to file discrimination charges. Yes, I said it that blun...

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I've always loved Christmas lights. Maybe it’s because, growing up Jewish, we never decked out our house each December with strings of t...

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"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is expected to rescind guidance that addresses harassment based on gender identity. Should...

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"You deserve someone who loves you for who you are, not who they want you to be." That's the heart of this week's episode ...

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On August 10, 2001, I fell in love with a band. I was at the Beachland Ballroom with my college roommate, who was in town visiting. He'd...

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On this week's episode of The Norah and Dad Show, Norah and I play a few rounds of "Am I the A--hole" — inspired by my purge o...

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* Image by  Nathaniel Currier , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Here's what I read this week that you should read, too.

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Every now and then, I like to take this space and go hyper-local, to highlight something that makes my corner of Northeast Ohio special. Tod...

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What's wrong with kindness? When I was a kid, I was taught: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me....

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Yesterday was National Daughters Day, not to be confused with National Transfer Money to Your Daughter's Account Day (Oct. 6), Internati...

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"Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors....

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On this week's episode of The Norah and Dad Show, I check in with Norah as she kicks off her sophomore year of college. We talk about he...

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