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It is often said that bad news comes in threes. Maybe for some, but that has not been my experience. For me bad news seems to come more like rain. Just as there are days, weeks and sometime months of cloud-free, rainless days, there seems to be times when all news is good news, and everything is coming up roses, as they say. Then like the clouds rolling in, I start to hear about people I know...

"I mean this, Byron – if you let them take me out of here before you finish doing my hair, I WILL come back and haunt you – I will be your worst nightmare!! Plus, I will never buy Tupperware from you again – I mean it!” My longtime hairdresser (and friend) and I were having this discussion in his shop during a thunderstorm with lots of lightning. He was in the middle of...

Jim Croce sang it. "If I could save time in a bottle". The song is, of course, "Time in a Bottle". Quite an interesting idea. Like catching lightning bugs and putting them in a bottle to light the darkness when you want. If only we could catch time and save it so we could use those minutes, hours and days like money from a savings account. Living through some boring times? No...

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...

Remember when there used to be gas stations at every intersection? Today, they’ve been replaced by pharmacies. A government study showed more than 40 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug and the number continues to rise. Does that mean 40 percent of us are sick? And if we’re taking all these medicines, wouldn’t you think we’d all be healthier?...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....