A poorly dressed woman walked into a five-star downtown hotel. She saw the front desk and smiled as she walked to the receptionist. ...
Transcript Uhhhh! The pain was nearly unbearable. A typo! One digit! Harry’s mistake would cost his company tens of thousands of dollars. Coworkers had reviewed the report. He could try to blame others...
Transcript In 1935, Chester Carlson was a young New York lawyer. He grew impatient with the time it took to copy legal documents. Three years later, he completed a prototype machine to do...
Transcript Laura had one of “those" jobs: a workplace hostile to her faith. She had a boss who called Christians phonies. And coworkers who delighted in creating opportunities for her to turn the...
When Sherry was little, as she'd leave home, her parents would say, "Be on your best behavior!" Sherry knew what that meant: show good manners, be kind, share what you have . . . don't embarrass...
My friend Earl Palmer once visited a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. When it came time to go, he boarded a small plane. The young pilot described what their launch by catapult would feel like.
The great poet John Milton, author of the epic Paradise Lost, was totally blind by age 41. But he learned to compose poetry in his head. In a famous sonnet titled "On His...
The Mediterranean diet is a popular, healthy eating plan. Olive oil is central to this diet. Now olive trees most often grow in marginal areas, like rocky hillsides, unsuited to other crops. While...
In the 1920s, pastor Bates Burt didn't understand his son Alfred's fascination with new, unsettling jazz.. But he supported it—even letting him practice drums in the rectory attic!
