I love books. I like to mark them up as I read them, and reread them, and arrange them and rearrange them on my bookshelves. I have a lot of books but there is a handful that I can honestly say have changed my life. I will never forget the time that

This holiday season I got the opportunity to don the red hat and beard and play Santa himself at our local rec center pool. Instead of the usual fuzzy warm suit, I got to wear swimming trunks and a Hawaiian shirt along with a padded belly and sit out on the play feature where the kids go to use the slide and water cannons.

An older couple came in to my work the other day. They were commenting on how beautiful the area was and what a nice day it had been as they walked in. I began helping them and engaged them in some small talk as I often do. I wasn’t expecting to get much out of [...]

It was one of the best sandwiches I had ever made. Each piece, from the mouth-watering meat to the warm poppy seed bread, was perfect. It dripped flavor. It begged to be devoured. The time to enjoy had arrived. As I sat down, with my masterpiece placed before me, a horrid sulfuric smell burnt my [...]

“Getting out of the box” is not the same thing as “thinking outside of the box.” At least not at Zagrum, a highly successful company with a mysterious initiation meeting for all new employees. Tom Callum soon learns that he has a problem—a problem that he was completely unaware of. But he isn’t alone. “Of [...]

A New Year has arrived—right on schedule. Never again will I utter the words two thousand and ten. Unless I am using it to scold my children, “If I’ve told you once I’ve told you two thousand and ten times.” The New Year’s holiday is generally a sad time for me. It is the end [...]

It is easy to become frustrated by all of the commercialization, the crowds, the earlier and earlier appearance of decorative trinkets sold in stores. One might think that Jesus has been completely forgotten—at least to those who don’t make it a point to remember. But the fact is that Jesus’ birth over 2000 years ago [...]

The best Italian food I ever ate was in Mexico. It was during a power outage, a rain storm, and a traffic jam. When the power went out in the restaurant they didn’t kick everyone out. Instead the waiter carried on like it happened every day. Perhaps it did. My friend Ben and I sat [...]

I thought I knew what to wear to an interview, but recently, I learned that what I had always thought was the right way to dress for an interview was absolutely wrong. And I was shown some pretty good reasons for it as well. I had always heard that you should find out how they [...]

The unemployment rate that is announced each month by the U.S. Department of Labor is actually quite misleading. According to their own website people are only listed as unemployed if they have actually looked for a job in the last 4 weeks. If they have given up on looking for a job for at least [...]