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One of the Teachable Moments that emerged from last week’s Crashergate scandal might be this: when you sign on to make your employer shine, your own light will have to be dimmed a little. Especially if you were a star to begin with. Desiree Rogers became White House Social Secretary and Special Assistant to the…

It’s that time of year again—Black Friday has come and gone, the economy has been declared on the mend (perhaps prematurely, but the hope is we’ve seen the worst of it) and purse strings are loosening a little bit.  If you normally gift the people who are helpers, caregivers or who take care of your…

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey and drama, right? Not everyone will eat turkey (vegans, vegetarians, some of my Root colleagues who just don’t like the bird), but everyone will come to dinner, and whether we’re guests or hosts, we have responsibilities: If you’re a guest: come on time, but don’t come early and expect…

I’m going to be spending the holidays with my cousins who live in a city where there are lots of celebrities. I am taking my camera with me, and I hope, hope, hope to get a couple of snapshots with a few stars while I’m there. She has already warned me to be cool with…

I’m starting to squirm: The Halloween clearance candy isn’t even gone yet, and the stores in my town are already selling Christmas lights! I was in a store yesterday that was playing Christmas music. I used to really enjoy the season, but now all I can think of is how much I’m going to have…

My best friend and I see each other a couple times a week.  We go to movies and museums, window-shop, hit the gym, and sometimes we just sit down and talk for an hour over a cup of coffee in a cafe.  We are in perfect harmony EXCEPT when we decide to eat out.  To…

“The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.” Baron Thomas Babington Macauley And that’s for good or for bad things. What we do unobserved or when we don’t have to in some measure defines who we are. So to pick some pretty mundane…

Dear Come Correct: The love of my life and I are getting married over the Christmas holidays.  We grew up in the same city, so many of our nearest and dearest will be there.  He and I are in perfect agreement about how much to spend, what we want to wear, what kind of wedding…

Maybe it’s something in the air, maybe the alleged beginning to the recession’s recovery is making people feverish to go out and spend money.  Whatever it is, they are hella anxious to grab a parking space.  Over the past week, I have seen three—count them, three—serious set-tos in parking lots.  Person A is waiting for…