Anyone who can survive this kind of devastating injury and face it with this much bravery is truly an incredible example to us all.  I had an opportunity to meet Marine Corporal Todd Nicely, who is also a quad amputee survivor.  These two brave heroes put all the trivial B.S. in the world into perspective!!  Their incr...more

It isn't the most "unusual" animal, but there was a duck that used to come to my sister and brother-in-law's pool every year at their old house.  One day my brother-in-law had enough and tried to get rid of the feathered tresspasser,  His solution?...He went and got the garden hose and started walking around the pool b...more

I was out of work for 4-1/2 months.  In June I found a WONDERFUL new job.  I love what I'm doing and I don't have to see a great company be brought to its knees by people who have no clue about the business but wrecklessly make incredibly bad decisions about how to "fix" it...I feel sorry for those who still work for H...more

I worked for Hostess for 22 years and lost my job due to outsoursing.  In those 22 years one of the biggest problems that I saw was that there were too many chiefs and not enough indians.  The top level management in recent years made decisions based on no real knowledge of the baking business, but based their restruct...more