Did you watch the Winter Olympic Games? Exciting as the competition and controversy were, most interesting to me were the vignettes of the athletes. The stories of where they are from, how they became interested in their particular sport, and their dreams of becoming Olympians. Many of the individuals profiled spoke of parents or coaches […]
One wonders how they came up with the idea. Did excessive time spent preparing coleslaw cause them to miss their child’s school program? Was it because the inventor’s Dad never let him or her have a BB gun when they were a kid? Or was it an ad agency brainstorm session where someone said, “What […]
Several years ago I was in the Minneapolis airport waiting out a flight delay that was lasting well into the evening. You can only fill the time so many ways. After I’d eaten dinner and browsed the newsstand I found a seat and pulled out a book to read. An elderly woman took a seat […]