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Humor Is an Important Ingredient for These Chefs

Posted on November 24, 2017December 25, 2022 by Frank C. Siraguso

Every profession and occupation has its own brand of humor, usually intelligible only to insiders And each group takes its humor seriously. When you joke with your co-workers about your boss, each…

Why you and I might not retire

Posted on March 26, 2014March 23, 2021 by Frank C. Siraguso

When I was around 10 years old, my vision of retirement was to work until 65 and then “fish my life away.” Role models included my maternal grandfather, who retired from the…

Finding the Ghost in the Machine

Posted on March 6, 2014January 15, 2018 by Frank C. Siraguso

“Management researchers . . . dig deeper and deeper into the human psyche in their search for the ‘ghost in the machine’ – that elusive spirit that inspired enthusiastic human action and…

New era takes off in Red skies as another goes down the drain

Posted on November 12, 2013November 13, 2013 by Frank C. Siraguso

One can’t have read Arlie Hochschild’s The Managed Heart and continue thinking about any working stiff, woman or man, in the same way. Ever. It affects me especially when I’m at a…

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He Don’t Look Like Elvis

Not Elvis

He Don’t Look Like Elvis is the unflinching, tragicomic true tale of how I became Frankie Stone, a bass player for Elvis impersonator Bobby Love and his band, the Love Machine.

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