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Yesterday started bad, as when I got up, I knocked over a lamp that is on my side of the bed. (By accident, it is not my habbit nore was it my intention!) And it broke. Now that lamp was essential for working in the bedroom, as during this time of year, at 16.00h its getting too dark to write anything with just the lamp on the ceiling burning. But things got worse. I am using old...

Many years ago, while in the restaurant business, we had a very faithful customer by the name of George. George would come in to eat every day. Sometimes two or three times in one day. He called my old boss, Jack, over to him one day. He told Jack he was getting married Saturday and he wanted to know if he could have his wedding reception there at the Weiner King. Now, George wasn't playing with a...

I think you and I will agree that it's a good thing when a husband and wife can really turn each...

OK take one 18 year old and ask yourself how much damage could he do in one evening. Let me count them......... 1 Tear up the rear end in my van 2 Break the screen door on our front door. 3 Rip off the whole water spigot from our back yard. He is now franticly running around town trying to find stuff to fix the spigot as we have no water! My husband is about to blow his top...

We talk a lot about the rapidly changing culture of aging and how anything is now possible. That’s a good thing, right?For many American’s, the surprising answer is “no!” One woman recently told me, “I don’t want the stress of trying to be successful and happy again. I gave up on all that years ago.” For many, new opportunities represent nothing more than new disappointments....

How important are experience and longevity? Ask the 150 passengers who walked away from Flight 1549 after an apparent double bird strike took out both engines, forcing the pilot to ditch in the Hudson River. It was obvious in the immediate aftermath that Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger’s 5-member crew performed their jobs to perfection under intense life-and-death pressure. Now we’re learning...