Towards the end of my working day I was asked to find a needle in a haystack. I attacked full force, heave hoeing with my pitchfork so-to-speak and throwing the pieces of hay aside in hopes of finding the item of interest (one single data point amid a million or so others).  As 5 pm [...]

Apparently, more than a third of the working class spends their lunch hour eating at the desk. I too have sometimes felt the need to work through lunch to either hit a deadline or make up for time lost at an appointment or in traffic. But I also know from experience that getting away from my [...]

Everything smelled like roses when I first entered the office this morning. I’m not kidding; the fragrance hit as soon as the first door shut. Yet there are no roses in sight. It’s winter, you know. Although there is plenty of sunshine, we have all cut back our bushes in anticipation of cold weather. By [...]

I somehow felt driven to go to work yesterday — even though I felt illness coming on strong. Hours later, as I slowly scrolled through the documents I’m due to collate comments on, I seriously questioned my being there. The intent of my review was to familiarize myself with each of the nine documents so [...]