Why I Was Planning To Lie At My Reunion My 45th high school reunion for the Oak Park-River Forest class of 1975 was scheduled to be held at a bar on the crowded strip of bars and restaurants on Madison Street in a western suburb of Chicago where as teenagers we snuck in with fake IDs. It was cancelled…

By Michele Weldon The thud against the front door wakes me about 4:15, 4:30 a.m.. It is followed by the dozen or so rubber-soled rushed footsteps of the man who has been delivering the printed newspaper to my house for more than 20 years, the slam of his car door…

Give the moms a break. In the U.S., nearly 25 million moms are in the workforce, and most, or 70 percent of mothers with children under 18 are working. Nearly 75 percent of these mothers are employed full-time. …

Regardless of your personal assumptions about ability and competence, you certainly can’t discriminate against someone who is older. Problem is, so many people in the workplace do. A new study from GOBankingRates of more than 500 adults over the age of 45, shows that 45 percent of older workers say…

Valerie Jarrett says when she set off for her first year at Stanford University in 1974, her mother gave her a warning. “She calculated how much every class cost, and said if you are thinking about cutting a class, this is how much is coming out of my pocket,” says…

8 Leadership Lessons From The New Mary Poppins Set to top $300 million at the box office soon, the recent launch of the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious remake, “Mary Poppins Returns,” has some keen takeaways for all of us striving to make the best of our professional lives, not the least of which is a spectacular comeback. The magical nanny with…

“Can you pick up Susan Sontag at her hotel?” “Can you take Tom Wolfe to the airport?” Brenda Langstraat, CEO of Working in the Schools, the largest literacy organization that partners with Chicago Public Schools, says these sorts of tasks involving literary giants were part of her job as an…

I recently led an all-day seminar where a few people in the room exuded negativity starting from complaints about the breakfast and continuing relentlessly regardless of topic, discussion or activity. Cynical, overly critical of colleagues, adding only contradictions and challenges, they each had nary a kind word for anyone. Even…

Red. Blue. Republican. Democrat. Independent. Vote for a woman running for office and aim for a woman in the Oval Office. That is the rallying cry of author Rebecca Sive, whose latest book. …