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Before the Food Network and hit shows like "Top Chef," I was laboring away in the then unglamorous restaurant industry. My family has been running restaurants in the Central Florida area since 1948. For more than 30 years, the Central Florida landmark Villa Nova was operated by my family. In 1984, I struck out on my own and started Jordan's Grove restaurant. It garnered many awards, , including...

Ten Tips to Help You Live to be Drama Free at Midlife 10. Write a list of goals you'd like to achieve. Focus on what you know you can do well. Don’t try to be a “jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none. 9. Say “no” instead of “yes”. I had to learn this one. You can’t be all things to all people so instead of trying to please everybody—just do what you know you can do...

There are many changes going through the healthcare industry. Regulations are getting tighter. Insurances have bigger deductibles and have more exclusionary clauses then a legal genius can figure out. There are in network and out of network providers. There are different deductibles. There are DME riders. The list goes on and on. The one thing I can say for sure is that the public is both...

This morning, Travis, my mailman, delivered the bad news. “…it’s because of the economy, Mr. C ”, he said. “Travis, you guys have threatened to do this many times. ” “Well this time we mean it. We really do. We just can’t afford to do Saturday deliveries anymore.” “What do you mean ’can’t afford ’? How much are...