It was not by design. But the S-R newsroom seating chart has a few pockets of gender clustering. I happen to sit along a fault line between a male-centric area and an all-female grouping. Now people who work for newspapers tend to have a variety…
Shirley Schoenleber saw a recent Slice headline referring to new-car smell. It reminded her of a story. "In 1973, I purchased a brand new Ford Pinto from a local dealer." For reasons she can no longer recall, she arranged to have it driven to her…
1. Some people have never heard of those poets and songwriters occasionally described as the voice of their generation. 2. Seeing an employee of grocery store XYZ shopping in Trader Joe's raises a couple of questions. But I suppose they can be answered with "What…