GET AWAY: REFRESHING ROAD TRIPS & RAFTING ADVENTURES

All Floridians know that summer here starts in March, when the cool breezes of our southern winter evaporate and the sweltering, relentless humidity envelopes us all. Temps...

ZOOM ATTIRE: BUSINESS ON THE TOP, COMFORT ON THE BOTTOM

For the better part of the past year, many of us have been living our professional lives from the midsection up — Grecian busts with more personality. For...

We’ve come a long way but are far from finished

Outrageous. Sexist. Offensive. Appallingly outdated. All would be accurate descriptions, by today’s standards, of the ads on the following pages, all of which appeared in popular magazines from the...

Pandemic Pop Quiz: Are you thriving, surviving or sinking?

All you had to do was stay home — lockdown, quarantine, masks, sanitizer and loads of toilet paper. Piece of cake, right? Perhaps not. Our plans to repaint...

Women, COVID & today’s economy

Ladies, we’re tired, right? Cooking, cleaning, raising kids and running the world takes its toll. At the start of 2020, women’s participation in the labor force was at...

Pineapples

Who doesn’t love pineapples? They’re sweet and tangy and sunny and before we became a global economy, they were pretty hard to get in northern climes. But...