While standing in line to enter the theater, a man told me he attended a Styx concert in the 1970s. Inside the building, a woman explained this marked her 15th Styx concert. For most of the audience, their youth had sailed away long ago. A woman in the front row with dangling gray hair practically […]
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In California, Anita’s mother helped her with her children. After her mother passed away, Anita was homeless, sleeping in a car. She then packed up her family and moved to Arizona. Anita’s children’s names appeared on the calling list of Karen, an employee at a company in the healthcare industry. The two women connected. Karen
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The only film that defined my childhood more than E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is Return of the Jedi. For my 11th birthday, my friends filled a theater row in a South Florida mall to see the original rise of Skywalker. Nothing that day stopped the film from capturing our young imaginations, even when the film reel
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The printer we purchased less than a month ago ran low on ink. We needed to print important papers for a meeting the next day. We planned to drive to Target or OfficeMax to buy printer ink, but Amazon offered to deliver ink by 10pm that same day. I texted my parents: “We ordered printer
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We received an email explaining our HOA Board of Directors is considering a proposal to permanently convert one of our community’s two tennis courts into a pickle ball court. (Currently, people can play pickle ball on one of the courts.) We live next door to the tennis courts. One of the reasons we moved to
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A principal and assistant superindentent told us they determined the judges of our daughter’s school spelling bee last month made the correct decision when they concluded she misspelled the word “poseur.” Our daughter was one of two remaining contestants when she spelled the word “poser.” (Last school year, she included the word “poser” in the
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As a kid, I sat with my grandpa outside the airport fence and watched the planes takeoff and land. During his lifetime, he watched air travel evolve from its inception. Airports themselves also are evolving. During our tour years ago of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, someone explained how the arrival of PHX Sky Train®
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Visit the grocery store, Michaels or The Home Depot and see how it’s not too early to start deciding on this season’s Halloween decorations. One of our favorite holidays (Is Halloween an actual holiday?) is still weeks away, but creating creepy content for customers and employees should be a monster part of your to-do list.
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As I loaded our video production gear, I felt a surging sting in my foot. I walked to another room and looked at my foot. I saw redness but no cut, nothing carved into my skin. Had I scraped my foot against equipment? Had I strained something? I returned to the scene of the sting
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A lawyer once told us he never takes on new clients unless he genuinely believes he can win their cases. In nearly any industry, money can persuade us to partner with difficult clients. We rationalize ignoring our instincts and red flags. But the benefits of short term clients generally are the equivalent to business one-night
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