Jackie Lightfield

Apartment living has become a thing in Fairfield County, and while it seems that every building has been branded as “luxury” the experience doesn’t always match. Here are some tips to help you select an apartment that minimizes the top issues renters face. Noisy neighbors can make or break your experience. The first thing you should check out is the quality of the floor. Taller buildings at least have a steel beam skeleton-type structure. That doesn’t always mean solid floors.

As part of my everlasting gobstopper quest of getting the details about the stories I write, I ended up creating an entirely different story from the one that I was actually researching. Call it the curse of the curious mind. As a giant fan of Golden Age Detective stories, I came to the realization that historic mystery fiction was where I needed to be. This meant that getting the details, however small they may be, absolutely right was going to require a field trip or two.

Managers and leaders have got quite the juggling act, don’t they? Between all those surprise problems, back-to-back meetings, and trying to keep everyone happy, it’s easy to let some not-so-great habits slip into the mix. These habits can start to sneak into everything they do without them even noticing. It’s like your brain decides to take the wheel, driving everything on autopilot, which makes breaking these habits a real challenge.