Over the years, this site has been the beneficiary of some amazing all-staff emails and memos …  like this one with the glorious sentence “I will confront you by Wednesday of this week,” sent by the boss after a holiday party went awry, and in which — in the process of chastising others for misbehavior — […]

I’m throwing this question out to readers because frankly I don’t have good answers for this one, and I’m hoping in particular that readers with experience in sex work will weigh in. Here’s the letter: I have a bit of a strange question. I want to get into sex work, specifically as a professional dominatrix. It’s […]

Per Thursday tradition, I’m throwing this letter out to readers to weigh in on. This is an interesting one: How do I get people to remember me? Today, my colleague and I attended a meeting to finalize a work program we had negotiated with an external organization. The meeting followed six months on from an […]

Earlier this year, I told the ridiculous story of the intern house I was in charge of, and how the interns living there made tea for a burglar, who then robbed them when they left to go to the beach. I want to know your own tales of ridiculousness that you witnessed or perpetrated while living with […]

It’s Book Week for me, so I’m throwing this one out to readers to weigh in on. A reader writes: I’m in a freelance profession that’s very close-knit. One of my colleagues moved to my area almost 2 years ago. He tried to break into the scene right away, and because of his attitude and […]