Laura Buffington

‘Tis the season for end-of-year recaps, highlight reels, braggy family Holiday letters, and mushy fireside reflections. So here’s ours:

People will show up to this week’s Oktoberfest Zinzinnati for a whole long list of reasons: the schnitzel, the chance to dance along to some sweet oom-pahs, to get their money’s worth out of the [...]

If you paid any attention to the Emmy Awards this week, you know that the Amazon show, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won a giant pile of awards in comedy categories.

Last week, a block away from our offices in Cincinnati, a crowd of people heading into work or out on a coffee break were traumatized by an active shooter. Like a lot of people, we feel a bit [...]

Everybody knows that the way we talk to each other is changing all the time. We have choices to make about mediums, rhythms, and meanings. While there may be some universal rules or intra-office [...]

By the time I got to the theater to see the new documentary on the life and work of Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, I was fully prepared to weep my way through the whole film. The movie [...]

Stories and songs have a rich and beautiful friendship. The best songs place you inside of a story, sometimes leaving you room to fill in the narrative gaps. The best stories stir up soundtracks [...]

There will be a lot of internet ink used today to talk about the life and work of Anthony Bourdain. As I write this on Friday morning, people are filling twitter with words from him and about him.

Let’s say you’re sitting around the office watercooler (is this still a thing?) or some other work gathering area where small talk happens. But you don’t want to keep the talk small. You want to [...]

Since Bill Gates put out his summer reading list this week, and he seems to be doing all right for himself these days, we might as well follow his lead and put out a list too. Even if our adult [...]