I'm not a holiday person. I don't do the lights, the decorations, the frantic shopping. But my niece is. She's eight, and she believes in the magic of Christmas with the kind of intensity that makes you want to believe too. So when my sister called me two weeks before Christmas and said she couldn't ...

I have a strict rule about lunch breaks.

Thirty minutes. Not a second more. I eat at my desk most days, working through a sandwich while I catch up on emails. It’s not healthy. I know it’s not healthy. But my job has a way of expanding to fill whatever time you give it, and if I took a full hour, I ...