Archive for April 10th, 2007

“Gimme Shelter” is an especially meaningful and plaintive cry for the harried professional. Alas, there is little shelter from the everyday tensions and pressure from living the life we lead, and seemingly few effective remedies in the way of deep and abiding relaxation.

But if you are going to seek out a convenient and easily accessible [...]

Waiting for John’s son to join us for dinner, John reminisced about Chad’s beginning in sales. One doesn’t think of sales as a tool for self-transformation, but the “nature of the beast” makes it so.
Chad decided to take up sales when he was tired of his peer’s preoccupation with the “rock and roll” lifestyle [...]

“The other day, after I’d spent six hours in a one-on-one Russian lesson, tussling with verb conjugations and other grammatical madness, the phone rang. On the line was a woman with a thick New York accent, wanting to know if I wanted my chimney cleaned.The woman was calling from Brooklyn and assumed that she had [...]