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After Hours
with Jody Glynn Patrick
05/21/13CFO Awards: Nominate your ‘Dan Bullock’!Dan Bullock: He’s clear speaking, levelheaded, creative, compassionate, and reliable. He is also known for being an early adopter of a “paperless” workspace, preferring electronic records to file cabinets. But more than that, he’s a contributor to his company’s bottom line and growth potential. Dan, the CFO at Cleary Building Corp., is a friend of mine, and I hope that he applies to be in the running for In Business magazine’s CFO awards, because I believe he would be a strong contender. If he doesn’t win, he will have nonetheless set the bar high for other competitors. Posted at 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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05/13/13What trumps Mother’s Day? ‘Three Questions’ on Nana’s Day!“That big cloud has a Frankenstein head with a Betty Boop body,” grandson Patrick mumbles, cloud-gazing. We are driving back to Chicago at the end of a weekend spent in Madison; he is riding shotgun in the front seat, a rite of passage for 12-year-olds nowadays. (How things have changed since I was his age, when my mother would throw her arm across my seat and clothesline my neck when she hit the brakes – with or without a lit cigarette in her hand. Thank heaven for today’s seat belts and airbags.) Posted at 01:51 PM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
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05/07/13Lucy in the Sky With ScienceLSD … Once you get past the mental image of psychedelic walls melting into rainbows, ask yourself if a controlled dose of lysergic acid diethylamide might somehow serve the greater good. That’s what the audience was asked to consider at Promega’s March 2013 bioethics conference, “Further Studies in Human Consciousness: Creative Insight,” where cultural critics, philosophers, and scientists came together to discuss the latest research into the mystical workings of human minds. Posted at 07:39 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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04/29/13Patrick & Nana’s latest, greatest adventureThis month, my grandson Patrick turned 12 years of age. For this first “big boy” birthday, I had promised him a trip to Washington, D.C., and so we recently boarded a late-evening plane scheduled to arrive in the capital city at midnight. Once landed, we ferreted out our assigned rental car (eventually discovering the trunk latch hidden in the Volkswagen Golf’s logo plate) and finally made our way to the Loews Madison Hotel in the wee hours of the next morning. Posted at 12:43 PM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
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04/23/13Why do we do what we do?Most of us have wondered, at one time or another, why we do what we do. What is our “underlying motive” to eat when full, spend when broke, date a jerk or airhead, or stay in a job we’d trade in a heartbeat for a chance to appear on The Voice? And why do we continue doing those things, knowing the probable outcome of the extra dessert or of dating a misogynist? |
IB's Managing Publisher Jody Glynn Patrick blends work and life in this very clear departure from both her column for In Business magazine, and the other bloggers. Awarded national recognition for both her previous work as a newspaper columnist and her journalistic leadership at IB, she brings us all back "Closer to Home" with her insights and remembrances. A nice place to be "After Hours." Check back often!
