Time For Some Training
Has this ever happened to you? You’re in one of those company-wide meetings at work and someone announces that it’s time to do some training. So the head of HR announces that you and your […]
Category: Fiction
For One Marathon Runner, Race is Not Always to the Swift
HOPKINTON, Mass. The rows of portable toilets that line the streets of this bucolic suburb on the morning of the Boston Marathon see heavy duty just before the starter’s gun goes off as runners nervously […]
My Quest to Bring Karaoke to Mt. Everest
Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to change the way we view the world. For me, it was the story of David Sharp. Sharp was a climber in distress who died 300 feet from the summit […]
The Socialist Dictator Haircare Department
A movie producer who gelled his hair upwards sat through a lunch with Fidel Castro during which the Cuban leader spoke without interruption for three hours. When he finally stopped talking, he looked at the guest […]
Righteous Pope Gives US Sisters His Blessing
Nuns in America are celebrating the news that Pope Francis has halted the Vatican’s crackdown on what it regarded as “radical feminist” groups of nuns in the US who had created a “doctrinal crisis” in […]