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I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. The journey of life continues day to day through conscious and unconscious interactions. I am sure some that read this may find it a bit out there but I do believe it to be true. Have you ever thought about someone and seconds later they call you? Have you ever thought about something, acted on it and ended up being so happy you did?...

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...

Trick or Treat? By Tatjana “Irongeezelle” Eggink & Cliff “Irongeezer” Eggink Since October is the month of Halloween, Irongeezelle thought it might be apropos to provide a mixed bag of morsels, most tasty and most foul: News bites, sound bites, thought bites. You name it. What they have in common is that they are all non-fattening, even while some are frighteningly decadent, and...

I have had many phone calls and good wishes over the past few weeks about an incident that changed our lives. We had all been looking forward to the trip with anticipation for a year. The trip happened really because we lost 2 of our grandparents suddenly in 2007 and my mom wanted to create a magical moment for her entire family. So 11 of us (5 kids) and 6 adults headed on the journey of a...

The number thirty, depicted as -30-, is used to indicate the end of a newspaper (or broadcast) story; it's a copy editor's typographical notation. Yet, among all the other ways thirty is used in our daily lives, there is one that is special. It is that day when someone turns thirty - a special and magical birthday. It is not the ending but rather the start of the best years of one's life....

I also love to write about it! My story was selected for inclusion in the Woman's Day archive for 2007. You can view it online at www.ilovelibraries.org.I sent the info to the Orlando Public Libray and they liked my story as well, so they posted it online. Read all about it here:http://www.ocls.info/Programs/Articles/Newsbox/PatronStory.asp?bhcp=1The children's department I wrote about was...