Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
The Only Disability in Life is a Bad Attitude
Champion figure skater Scott Hamilton has proven that there is no challenge too big to overcome. The 1984 Olympic gold medalist has managed to put a positive outcome on every adversity he encounters. Throughout his life, Scott has battled health issues, the loss of his mother, and the strain of heavy training and competition, and [...]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
If You Can’t Change Your Fate, Change Your Attitude
Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California) is an American writer of Chinese descent whose works explore mother-daughter relationships as well as relationships between Chinese American women and their immigrant parents. In 1993, Tan’s adaptation of her most popular fiction work, “The Joy Luck Club”, became a commercially successful film.
Ms. Tan was born into [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Keeping Perspective - Subtract the Pants
A young lady wrote a letter home from college that read:
“Dear Mom: Sorry I haven’t written sooner, but my arm has been broken. I broke it, and my left leg, when I jumped from the second floor of my dormitory…you see my dorm room was on fire. We were lucky because a young service station [...]
