Picture a petit woodland glen on your coffee table with moss, ferns and ivy nestled around a pine cone. Or a tiny beach retreat in your office cubicle featuring sand, shells, a sliver of driftwood and an air plant. For those who don’t have the time or space for a garden outdoors, a terrarium is a way to enjoy nature with minimal work.

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Terrariums - indoor gardening on a small scale - Baltimore Sun

Chris Hinkle knows first-hand how easy it is to kill someone in the workplace without even going postal.

The deadly character assassination usually starts with catty comments and malicious gossip from a boss or co-worker and escalates into a team sport that divides workplaces along loyalty lines and costs employers big time by destroying morale, productivity and often lives.

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Odd man out is recipe for a toxic office - Toronto Star

Katie Krueger dreamed for years of starting her own grant writing business. She loved the idea of being her own boss, choosing her own projects and scheduling her own time. “I wished I could be courageous enough to do it, but at the end of every school year I’d say to myself, ‘Oh, I’ll stay another year,’” she says.

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It May Be Time Now To Start Your Own Business - Forbes

I know everyone swears that office dating is a recipe for disaster, but according to recent studies cited in Fortune and GQ magazines, somewhere between 22 and 50 percent of office romances lead to marriage. So someone’s doing something right. Possibly in the cubicle right next to yours!

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How not to date a coworker - CNN

Many of the quirky and historic spaces are in House office buildings because the Senate is just too, well, senatorial for people to work in elevator shafts and bathrooms. There was a short time when bathrooms were converted into office space in the Senate office buildings. Toilets and sinks were covered, but that situation didn’t last long. Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie says there just aren’t too many odd spots left on the Senate side.

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Quirky offices emerge in full Capitol - Politico.com

They’re probably on your office phone right now. They may even be on your keyboard and mouse. And your co-worker in the cubicle next door? He might have them, too. They’re germs. And this time of year, you are probably exposed to them all over the workplace. Here are some reminders from the American Industrial Hygiene Association to help you prevent the spread of flu and other communicable diseases at the office.

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Don’t share germs with co-workers - St. Petersburg Times

Jeffrey Adkins was paid more than $100,000 a year by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for his extensive knowledge of computer systems. He wasn’t, however, quite so savvy about covering his tracks. Adkins frequently visited sexually explicit Web sites and did work for his church while on the clock, the Ohio inspector general’s office said in a report this week.

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State worker used hours in cubicle to surf porn sites - Columbus Dispatch

They’re probably on your office phone right now. They may even be on your keyboard and mouse. And your co-worker in the cubicle next door? He might have them, too. They’re germs. And this time of year, you are probably exposed to them all over the …

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How to maintain a healthy work environment - Anniston Star

Whether you are sitting in your cubicle or standing with co-workers by the coffee machine, you can see as well as anyone that the jobless rate keeps climbing: The workplace isn’t as crowded as it used to be. Amid one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression, layoffs are hitting all levels of many organizations, with little regard to tenure or title.

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Recession-proof your job - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

They’re smaller than your average bathroom and as boring as a Bill Belichick comedy monologue. They’re built from poles and shelves and 5-foot-high fabric-covered walls - offices made of Lego-like parts, if Legos came only in shades of concrete gray …

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Cubed, or are you breaking out? - Sun Journal