Who's packing your Parachute?

Charles Plumb, a US Navy Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surfac...

A Powerful Message of Life and Reality - The Three Stringed Violin

  On November 18th, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York ...

Flowers of sorrow.

  We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 33 years ago. During the early morning ride from the suburb, ...

A Story of change - Small Victories

Standing in the noisy cafeteria of the old school, I was watching the students line up for lunch. Having wearied of trying to "cut"...

The Good News with a Surprise! and Bad News with a Shock!!

  The soldiers had been in the field for two  weeks and hadn't had showers or been able  to change their clothes.  Then one day the Gene...

The Congregation of liers

  At the end of mass one Sunday a priest told the  congregation, "Next week, I plan to talk to you all about the sin of lying. To help ...

The Trouble Tree - Just Hang Your Problems Here

The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour ...

Desire, Belief, Expectation - The 3 Mighty Forces of Power

Events can be manipulated to solve problems you are faced with. You can change things you're not satisfied with.  While there&#...

Smile to Succeed

Three MBA qualified girls were appearing for an interview . There was only one vacancy. All the three girls had almost same level of gra...

Learn, Relax and Enjoy - 166

1)What ‘I’ is a form of expression peculiar to a language? Idiom 2)What ‘N’ is highly strung or easily agitated? Nervous 3)What ‘...

Life Need Not Be The Same As Always

The Three Little Trees Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew...

Learn, Relax and Enjoy - 139

be on the go : be very busy (going from one thing or project to another). "I'm really tired. I've been on the go all we...