John Legend and Kelly Clarkson have remade a holiday classic – Baby, It’s Cold Outside. What’s so newsworthy about that you might be asking? Well, apparently some members of the #MeToo movement have issues with the song’s lyrics, claiming they sound too “date-rapey”. They’ve even gone so far as to
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Email etiquette is all about respecting other’s time
The other day I realized that we all learned reading, writing and arithmetic from our wonderful teachers across the United States. But when were we ever taught email etiquette? If you can believe it, the very first network email was sent back in 1971 – invented by American computer programmer
Where you sleep is something you should never take for granted
Have you ever paused from the daily chaos of life to think about where you sleep? I know that sounds strange but stay with me for a minute here. This week, I’ve been battling a head cold – you know, the kind that makes your sinuses feel like they’re on
Music fades away in a relationship between soul mates
I wrote the lyrics to The Music Fades Away on September 14, 2001 – three days after the 9/11 attacks. Having lived in the New York Metro Area at the time – having seen the buildings under siege first hand – was an insane reality for me. To be that
Salaries should be contingent upon your contributions to society
Salaries are always a point of contention in our national economy, most likely because there’s such a disparity among them. Here’s just one example. According to a recent release by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) entitled Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers, the median weekly earnings