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This summer I was clearing out the house where I grew up in order to put it on the market. After 56 years of continuous inhabitation by the Smith family you can guess that it was filled with memorabilia of my past. I found two small stools that I had made in shop in the seventh grade. They weren’t great but I thought they would do as gifts for my small grandchildren. So at my 70th birthday...

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...

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 just got back from driving two thousand miles on vacation with my son before he leaves for college, and I'm proud to say that we did it "old school." That means with a map, not a GPS, no power windows, no power door locks, and no cruise control. And when we couldn't find something...we asked for directions! I've taken each of the kids out for a week "out West" before they left for college,...

I just got back from visiting Charleston, South Carolina for three days with my daughters, and I’d go back there in a heartbeat. And that was even before I looked up at a television monitor at the airport on the way home and noticed that today’s New York Times had a great travel article about the place. We were there for three days of escape together, and naturally worked some beach-going...

Introduction During the weekend 16/17 October 2004 we decided to take a three-week break and undertake a camping trip through the portions of Southern Africa known as Botswana including the world-renowned Okavango Delta and the northern portion of Namibia. Since we live in Pinetown, about 20 Km by road from the city of Durban on the Eastern Coast of South Africa, this would involve a...