Adulting 101: Divorce EditionGetting a divorce requires a lot of adulting. (And yes, “adulting” is now a verb.) The timing on that couldn’t be worse, because when you’re getting a divorce, adulting is extremely challenging.To make it easier, I’ve developed some divorce attorney-approved guidelines for adulting during your divorce:Don’t try to play the “young and dumb” card. Let me hit you with some hard truth here: You can’t... [...]
Guns Make Killing EasyI am sitting here, in my only orange shirt, in observation of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and my thoughts turn to the New York Times’ remarkable recent study of 358 shootings last year in which four or more people were killed or wounded. As the Times noted, these were not the high-profile mass shootings in unlikely places like schools, churches and movie theatres that capture national attention, but rather “a... [...]
French Legislation Suggests Employees Deserve The Right To DisconnectChecking your work email on a weekend or a holiday? As part of planned labor reforms, new legislation in France would encourage companies to create policies to help their employees disconnect from the office.Buried inside a hotly contested French labor reform bill is an amendment suggesting that companies of 50 or more employees draft formal policies to limit the spillover of... [...]
Preventing Child Abuse Fatalities: Support the Life-Saving Work of Child Protective ServicesNot a day goes by the media doesn’t cover a case of a child who was horribly abused or neglected. It’s estimated that between 1,500 and 3,000 children in the U.S. will die this year at the hands of those who were supposed to protect them. So vulnerable, the majority are under the age of four, they die from abuse due to beatings, they die from neglect,... [...]
Man arrested after barricading himself inside apartment with woman in Pompano BeachPOMPANO BEACH, Fla. - The Broward Sheriff's Office called in its SWAT unit Thursday morning after a man barricaded himself inside an apartment in Pompano Beach, authorities said.Deputies said the man forced a woman inside the apartment just before 11 a.m. at 2731 NW First St.Deputies said he was possibly armed with a knife and was not responding to authorities at... [...]
