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Every now and then, often where it is least expected, we experience truly incredible service; and when it happens it makes the event memorable – and at a small bistro north of Chicago on Friday night, it happened for us. We’d planned a casual dinner with friends who we’ve not seen for a while, opting for [...] My wife Kathy and I were traveling in Bermuda where we had a chance to make a small difference. We had stopped at a small, nice restaurant by Bermudan standards to have lunch. The menu went from casual sandwich fare to entrees more formal.
September and October are always the busy season for me, with everyone back from summer holiday bliss and refocused on whatever tasks lie unfinished from the year’s list of goals. It’s the time of one last big push before the holiday season consumes us once again. During this time, we often scale back our lost [...] One of the most significant quality of life differences between the Midwest and New England has to be the ability to park one’s car remotely close to one’s destination on a regular basis. And while the exercise opportunity offered to the east coast driver is actually quite beneficial, as they trudge miles from some barely [...] Every now and then one is totally surprised by another’s good deed. With the days growing shorter as summer wanes, it becomes especially easy to grow hyper critical of those charged most directly with helping those in need, especially with the daily news filled with various creative misdeeds of local government officials. In 2003, perhaps [...] after 2600 miles across the US for MS I remember my first real taste of freedom. It came on a bright summer Saturday afternoon, back when I measured time entirely by what was likely to happen in each of the next ten minutes. Everything after, and I do mean absolutely everything, just didn’t exist. I’d [...] Imagine, just for a moment, that you speak – and nobody hears what you’re saying. It’s a common problem. Travelers, moving from experience to experience in a foreign land without the benefit of the local language. Students, moving from class to class while their educators, often experts in their field expressly rewarded for possessing more information [...] |
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