Your pet pug is itching and scratching. Your pet Siamese is caterwauling, giving you the evil eye. Even your pet gerbil’s ailing. But you don’t want to make a run to the pet store or pop in on your vet to get medicines for what could be everyday pet ailments. Or you want something on…Read more »

Another year, another online survey. Indeed.com, an online job-posting site, came out with a rundown of the best cities in the country for finding work. It pitted the number of job seekers against the number of advertised job openings in an area. It crunched the numbers and spat out, in January 2011, the job market…Read more »

Let’s face it — most job interviews are ordeals, with awkward pauses, sweaty palms and rictus-style grins on the part of the interviewee and, sometimes, the interviewer. The potential employer may not be up to the task of screening and evaluating a prospective employee, and the interviewee may have a few black marks on his…Read more »

It’s bad enough that you’re in your 50s, or, ee-gads, your 60s, you’ve been on the job hunt since forever, and you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. So, you’re surfing the Internet during your always-ample free time, and you run across bloggers yelping about a new Urban Institute report that has ……Read more »

You’ve always yearned for a dog, and you’ve finally decided to take that giant step of becoming a dog owner (or “guardian,” in Berkeley, California-speak). But you’ve been through it. Those great brunches over at your friend’s place, and you bite into a flaky, steaming, luscious scone, and — yikes — it’s riddled with dog…Read more »