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Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle John Schlismann Rip van Winkleist ein Buchstabe, der immer gewesen ist, ist und immer sein wird. Es gibt Millionen Leute um die Welt, die seine gelassene Lebensanschauung nehmen, sein gefÜhlloses, unmotivated Haltung und vollendet absolut nichts. Rip ist eine Ikone zum stagnierenden, zum faulen und zum unbrauchbaren. Er ist die Person, die […]

Christmas Carols: Going Off-Key

My neighbors, Scott and Beverly, have a fun tradition that evolved from a Christmas Eve party during which everyone drank a bit too much eggnog. Scott has one of the deepest, raspiest, loudest voices I’ve ever heard. If you can see him you can hear him, and he doesn’t know how to whisper. This is […]

Butterfly Christmas

Martha still couldn’t believe the diagnosis- Leukemia! Her daughter was eleven. Eleven years old! “Why give me a daughter if you were going to just rip her from me? Don’t you know my life will never be the same? I can’t live without her God. I simply cannot live without hearing my little girl say […]

The Short Story – A Collection

I’ll Be Home At Midnight I have a good friend who is a doctor. A great guy but with one minor flaw: he never tells the truth. One weekend we went to play tennis at a resort about a hour from my house. We played doubles together until 1:00PM then took a break for lunch […]

Story of the Egg – Who Came First?

While we are on the way to discussing about the EGG, one of the basic and oft asked questions is “Who came first: the chicken or the egg?” There is no clear inference towards the history of this wonderful thing called the Egg.According to the Bible, the chicken came first.It has been mentioned as “And […]

Out on a Busy Street

I passed by a busy street, vehicles were building up, both private and public transportation. There were establishments, big and small. There were stalls all over the area with all sorts of resto’s and different sorts of shops. There is a school in the corner and hardware at the end of the street. It is […]

Chicken Little Went to Town-Part 1

“One day Chicken Little was walking in the woods when-KERPLUNK-an acorn fell on her head. ‘Oh my goodness!’ said Chicken Little. ‘The sky is falling! I must go and tell the king.’” Al Gore has come a long way since the days when he was moping around the house in his bathrobe all day, looking […]

Stop Playing Violins For Buffalos

When I was growing up, we travelled around a bit. And between the ages of about 8 and 12 I lived in a little area called Nhullunbuy or Gove. It was on the coast, near Darwin. Probably about an hour or so flight from memory. Anyway, Gove was crocodile, buffalo and box jellyfish territory. About […]

Tough Times Don’t Last

Every successful person I know has been through some tough times. Personally, I can remember getting started in business. I had been to a few seminars, read a few books and thought it would be a piece of cake. Boy, was I wrong. I started a hair salon with virtually no money… took over a […]

Trust Your Instincts

I remember hearing about a book years ago from a friend. It was called “Talk and Grow Rich” and one of the things that was said in there was “If an idea comes to you from your subconcious mind, then it’s coming to you because you have the ability to pull it off.” For example, […]