Tomorrow marks the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year. The sun is at its maximum elevation, and that means many of us long to be poolside. Whether we use them to relax, exercise, entertain or simply recharge, pools have long been the...

Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, shares her conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, their relationships, their careers, and more. She also answers readers' questions about how they can optimize their lives. Send your...

I hated school! There, I said it. My husband is a professor and several of my family members are elementary and high school teachers. Teaching is a profession that I highly admire; our educators' endless dedication, passion and motivation are amazing and inspiring. But our schools themselves are a different...

Most people will be tuning into Super Bowl on February 5 to watch the game (or maybe to scrutinize the ads or enjoy the halftime show). I will be checking out the stadium.

Having lived in the Midwest, the East Coast, the north, and the south, I am always...

My last Creative Spaces post featured 4th places those blended venues that are neither home nor office, but places where busy creative workers can alight to connect, exchange ideas, meet, and get some work done.

I made the point that most corporations have yet...

I've had a very colourful career path. From TV, radio, news, and music labels, to zoos, aquariums, and even a circus to one of the world's largest airport developers in the traditional corporate world. As different as all these jobs were, they had one...

My husband, Richard Florida and I were recently in Maastricht, The Netherlands to attend a conference on sustainable buildings and adaptive resuse. The region is awash in abandoned buildings, including manufacturing plants, schools and churches. Some of them were victims of the financial crisis; others could no...

My series Creative Spaces, which started out with homes of all shapes and sizes, is now expanding into cities. For the first time in human history more than 50 per cent of the world's population lives in cities -- that's more than three billion people, and it's growing...

While Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving on Columbus day, Americans are just gearing up for this annual feasting ritual. We all know what that means -- one of the busiest travel days of the year is quickly approaching and many of us will face long waits in airports.

Airports...

I hate shopping! I hate everything about it. The traffic, the parking, the lines, the loud music that's deliberately programmed to make customers move faster and buy more, the slow clerks, all the unnecessary tissue paper and packaging. On those rare occasions when I'm forced to enter a department store,...