To Tell Our Truth, pt. 1
It’s like hearing a song from your past in the car speakers beside you at a stoplight, or when a favorite book cover winks at you from behind the fingers of a fellow traveler. An artificial familiarity, but comforting just the same. A table of professional African American women, still in their heels and lined […]
To Tell our Truth, pt. 2
…continued from “To Tell Our Truth, Part 1” “We have to do more of this!” new Michelle says, gesturing to our tabletop of appetizer plates and empty glasses. We nod and toast in agreement. A 2007 American Bar Association report titled “Visible Invisibility” describes how black women in the legal profession face the “double burden” […]
The Society
There are rules, and there are rules. The first kind, we largely agree to be hard fast: stealing is wrong, kindness is good, unhealthy eating creates an unhealthy body, and cutting off someone in traffic fills your rear view mirror with crude hand gestures. The second kind of rules, even italicized in our minds, are […]
Strangers on a Bar Stool
Here’s what I like about Mason Street Grill…the vibe. It’s not just the cool jazz in the corner or the hushed lighting at the bar. It’s the eagerness of the patrons. They don’t have the “whew, no rx it’s over” aura of other happy hour revelers. In fact, I watched as businessmen gathered for a […]
Happy Hour as a Career High
Friday night happy hour is only an event because you were supposedly unhappy in the preceding hours at your work. Organizational theorists, business consulting gurus and all the Seth Godin’s of the world could supplement their next best seller with a happy hour at the Pfister. Tonight’s crowd ran the gamut in examples of the […]