Take one down, pass it around ...

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

A day off from work to drown yourself in beer? It could happen, if Guinness gets its way. The company has started an online petition - dubbed Proposition 3-17 -to make Saint Patrick's Day an official federal holiday, paid vacation ...

Sit. Read. Good boy.

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

I took my dog Marley - he's the mutt you see to the left, looking absolutely miserable in the bunny ears - to his first obedience class yesterday. And, as my co-worker Sonny Long predicted, it looks like I'll be the one ...

Happy Easter ... now let me crack this egg on your head.

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

I will never forget my first Texas Easter. I think I'd been in Laredo for about eight months at that point - a Hoosier transplanted in South Texas. The culture shock was huge and I'm not even going to tug ...

Dyeing to read your fortune!

By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook

The Easter egg. It's a pretty simple concept: you boil an egg, you dip it in dye - preferably without dyeing your fingers but hey, if it happens it happens - and set it out on display. As I drove home ...