Ten to fifteen years ago, shopping for a new book meant traveling to a local bookstore where the owner usually greeted you as you walked through the door.  Today, I spend five minutes online and...

He was an immigrant’s kid from Omaha.  And from the start, his life was show biz.  Vaudeville...then the New York stage.  But it took decades to land a Hollywood studio screen test.  And the...

Gwen has been legally blind for ten years. The term “legally blind” needs some explaining. Only about 12% of blind people lack any sight at all. While the legally blind cannot read even the big...

“I’ve decided that life is a Ponzi scheme.” I give my friend a quizzical look. “Do you know what that is?” “Yeah, sure, sort of. Isn’t that what Bernie Madoff got in all that trouble...

Lucas and Joe hiked the entire Appalachian Trail. From Georgia to Maine—on foot—they covered two-thousand one hundred and seventy-six miles.  Along the way, at various times, they saw another...

Author Tony de Mello tells about a farmer who put an eagle's egg in a barnyard nest. The eaglet hatched and grew up thinking he was a chicken. He scratched for worms, clucked, and only flew a...

Ask anyone in the division about John, and you’ll hear: “He’s the man who says ‘thank you.’ ” Early in his career, John made two commitments.  First, to be good at his work. Second, to stay...

There was the right way...the wrong way...and Rick’s way.  In every case, it had better be Rick’s way. Which is why Rick found it increasingly hard to recruit others to his projects. Carol, on...

Jim saw the negotiations sliding off track. Both he and Bill, the man across the table, wanted the deal done. But they had a list of differences to settle. All that morning, Jim watched as...

An ancient storyteller named Aesop told a fable about the north wind and the sun.  It opens with a challenge about a traveler’s cloak.  The north wind bets the sun that he can get that cloak off...