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I've been a Red Cross volunteer for a little less than a year and had done several jobs prior to this deployment, but that's another story. This is just a bit of my experience as a volunteer in TN after the tornados of Feb 5, 2008, DR# 136-08 (that's the number disasters the Red Cross has responded to already this year). On the morning of Feb 6, I was called and asked if I was prepared to go to...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...

Jul 19, 2010 (Post) (Email Backup) (Print)The recently capped well, no longer spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, can remain closed another day because seepage from it does not appear "consequential," a senior U.S. official said Monday. "We'll go forward with another 24 hours," National Incident Commander Thad Allen, who's in charge of the U.S. oil spill response, said at a news...

Yesterday, I gently nudged the car in front of me in traffic while I was doing a quick check to find something in my purse and the guy I hit then hit the car in front of him, which caused that person to hit the car in front of him, and . . . well, anyway, the guy I hit had an ATTITUDE, and frankly, I didn’t like it. He was one arrogant twerp. He studied his front and back bumpers and my front...

The mare stepped nimbly over the fallen limbs and piles of leaves as the highflying threads of clouds twisted loosely around the fading rays of the late November sun. A lone dove sounded its call as the horse and rider crossed a small rain-swollen creek and scrambled to the flat beyond. Two shots rang out. The mare, high-spirited to begin with, plunged from beneath the sudden dead weight of...