Large Presents Are Not Always the Best

Kirkland McCauley gave his wife an elephant for her birthday. It was not a present she liked or understood, and it made a mess on her carpets. In fact it remained the elephant in the room, the unspoken horror that separated them for the remaining three days of their marriage.

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Meeting Norman Cousins - His Words For Today

Writers were gods to me. Superhuman. Something I could never do, or be. He was a writer summoned by presidents, Pulitzer Prize winners, physicists, popes and kings and I was a young woman on my way to meet him for the first time. His words are even more powerful for today.

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Bring Your Kids to Work Day

"Bring Your Kids to Work Day" is something of a magical experience if you are living your "calling" (what you feel you are here to do on the planet). However, this could also be one of the scariest things you can do for a kid if you don't enjoy your work.

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Los Angeles Area Metrorail Raising Fares Again

When families are hurting and afraid of losing their jobs or home, things are at maximum stress. When costs go up it forces these families into a tipping point. Many transit districts right now are raising their rates and fares at this critical time, perhaps the worst possible time. Why you ask?

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Surveillance Camera Deployed in Dhaka Road

If you have seen anything lamp shaped when you crossed through streets of Dhaka in last few days, don't be confused. If you thought that a new set of lucrative street lamps are installed, you are wrong. Actually when you looked at it, it might also examining you for any kinds of suspicion.

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Is Google Killing the News?

I am a massive Google fan. I think they have done more to open up the web and unlock the information on it than any other company. It's all very well having browsers and content but finding what you need in the morass is what has made the web exciting, to my mind.

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Virginia Doesn't Want $125 Million in Federal Stimulus Money

In Virginia, representatives from the House Republican leaders, several local businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, claimed employers would be facing an increase of payment to the unemployment trust fund of up to $4.50 per employee per year. They were concerned the short term gain would result in long term regret in later years.

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