All items tagged "story"

My company was among the five finalists, but we lost the competition for a fifteen million dollar Navy contract. Two losing companies protested the award, but the protests ...

A friend who was a drug and alcohol abuser has now been in recovery over eight years. For thirty years he was a street bum living in boxes on hot air gratings, begging ...

I love Jodi Piccoult, her writing challenges me in ways I would never expect of fiction. I recently read her latest book, "Nineteen Minutes" about a mass school shooting. ...

I'm a writer which means I spend an insane amount of time alone. A few years ago I got a job that totally changed my life working to help women entrepreneurs get their ...

Have you seen the bumper sticker: "A bad day on the golf course is better than a good day at work." A salesman I know who had a sixteen handicap thought about that sticker ...

“I’m an all-American guy. No one would look at me in a million years and think I had this. My motivation was to open it up and put a better picture on OCD. It’s something ...

Sun Devils wrestler different, all right -- extraordinarily so! Gregg Doyel CBSSports.com National Columnist February 2008 Judy Robles knew her son was different ...

It happens everyday. You hear it in the news: Good people, good kids whose lives have been cut short due to unfathomable violence. You watch the news and you sympathize ...

My son Jack came home from school today with an excited, "Yippee Mom, there's no school next Monday because it's Martin Luther King Day!" A few minutes later he comes ...

How do you deal when your boss calls you to her office to tell you that both she and 'Ed Norton' (same guy from 'Oops you have a crush on the boss' story) are leaving ...