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While the digital age may have hopelessly downgraded grammar and presented conscientious English teachers with a more challenging time than in decades past, one truth ...

As the pace of life speeds up, we speed up right along with it, creating a breathless pace that can lead to exhaustion, burnout or ...

It looked like a massive oil spill, but fortunately the dark ocean waters in southern California were due to a massive migration: a school of ...

Who ever heard of hiring new employees, then offering them money to quit? This unusual recruitment method has made Zappos one of the most customer-centric ...

What’s the best way to manage uncertainty, whether you’re building a new business or facing a fluctuating economy? Model the behaviors and results you want. ...

While going to work doesn’t have to mean checking your “real self” at the door, making work “fun” may sound like an oxymoron which is ...

Humorist Bill Bryson’s book, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (a collection of essays written after returning to the U.S. from twenty years abroad) addresses the ...

It’s the heart of summer, and nobody wants to cook. Restaurant owners relish the surge in business that summer signals. But they’re not so fond ...

Most of us are familiar with the 3-second rule: if you drop food on the floor and pick it up within three seconds, it’s still ...

Impact Absorbents owes a debt of gratitude to a woman you may never have heard of: Stephanie Kwolek. Thanks to Kwolek, we’re able to provide ...

Everyone wants to feel they have a safe harbor. For some people, this is a spouse or significant other they can trust to hold their ...

Environmentalists have hotly opposed the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, the fourth and final phase of a trans-Canadian/US oil transport system, for its potential impact on ...

Crunches and sit-ups and planks, oh my! Along with a proper diet, these are some of the tried-and-true methods experts recommend if you want to ...

Branding your business requires a bit more finesse than branding cattle. It’s important to fine-tune your brand for distinctiveness. Here’s how Impact Absorbents can help: ...

Biting remarks. Mordant wit. These can be a bit hard to take on a regular basis from a family member or coworker. Caustic remarks are ...

You call the police when a crime’s been committed, and while a spill mishap isn’t exactly a police emergency, the way most businesses handle spill ...

Worrying about the economy seems to be a national pastime, only not as enjoyable as baseball. Will our business turn a profit this year? Will ...

We know tacky can be, well, tacky. But there are times when tacky is fantastic, such as when you need to protect a drain from ...

It’s spring, and that means outdoor sports. Track and field events are popular among schoolchildren and adults alike. And when people come in off the ...

OK, that’s not exactly the famous last line Scarlett O’Hara utters in Gone With the Wind, but it’s apt for the way many people think: ...

Cleaning. Few of us like to do it, yet we seem more willing to spiff up our house for others than for ourselves. Housekeeper due ...

In an increasingly scented world, we’ve come to equate “clean” with a chemical odor. Yet just a generation ago, people cleaned entire houses or businesses ...

March is an exciting month. It blows in like a lion, knocking over soft drinks, toppling flowerpots and occasionally trees, and generally wreaking havoc as ...

We all know February is famous for love. But besides Valentine’s Day, some lesser-known occasions can also be cause for celebration. February is Canned Food ...

Disaster literally means, “against the stars,” yet being disaster-ready is a down-to-earth practice. Here are the crucial steps to take so you’re prepared for any ...

The edge can be a challenging or fantastic place to be: a bit concerning if you’re standing on a precipice; more enjoyable when you’re fronting ...

As children we learned to count using our fingers, and sometimes our toes. Many of us also learned the nursery rhyme, “This little piggy went ...

When you’re launching your business, expansion may not even be on the radar. It’s consuming (and exciting) enough to be living your dream, landing new ...

You’ve heard the maxim, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Taking it a step further, we might say, it’s not who you ...

Losing weight. Getting in shape. Boosting sales. Being nicer to your in-laws. Whatever the resolutions, many people find it difficult to keep them after the ...