----I'm only 39, so maybe I'm just being a romantic, but it seems to me that it's a new thing for the workplace to be the center of life. Didn't people once have their lives - religious celebrations, entertaining, political activism - in the home, church, and community, and go to their workplace to earn a living?---
Mrs. Tax,
I'll give you $1,000 if you can show me one tombstone anywhere that is inscribed with "I wish I had spent more time at the office" or "Loving Father, Husband, Grandfather and Total Workaholic."
There is your job and there is your life; wise people like you never confuse the two.
Francis A.
Well, that's what I thought. I'm puzzled every year, at Christmas and Easter, especially, when there's so much in the news about whether or not businesses are going to have Christmas parties, or whether customers will be wished "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" or just "Be careful out there!" And all that stuff. I thought religious celebrations belonged in the home and in the church, not in offices and government agencies.