I’ve estimated that one standard weekly meeting in my bureau — 50 people sitting in a cookie-cutter conference room, looking both bored and anxious — costs around $177,000 annually, ...

I can’t remember the last time I was truly, soul-shakingly bored. Not “waiting for a Zoom meeting to start” bored. Not “stuck ...

DEAR ERIC: Sitting there bored and hoping to be ignored is me at get-togethers like meals or parties. I have poor hearing even using fine, well-adjusted hearing aids.