“Tis the Season”

Amid holiday parties, an anonymous person tacked a message to a community bulletin board:  “Sometimes I get so tired of masquerading that I am happy.”

I was asked how to respond professionally.

Like a friend, I said.

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Top Drawer

DRAWER PEOPLE — “The best (most capable) people available; of high social standing. The top drawer of a dresser usually contains one’s jewelry and other valuable things, and herein probably lies the origin of this 20th-century phrase. Rose Macaulay wrote, … Read the rest