How to Be Late for Dinner
In observation of Labor Day 2008, we share the following essay by New York writer Vicki Wilson. It’s an honest
August 2008 Archives
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For Entrepreneurs Starting with Nothing, Here’s the Ultimate Strategy
Hiroshi Tasaka is talking so fast it makes my head whirl. I wonder to myself, Can even Japanese listeners follow
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The Elements of (Life)Style
A slim sourcebook for writers, The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White is a veritable classic, thoroughly instructive
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How to Create Wealth, How to Keep Wealth
Wealth is made in concentration—and maintained in diversification
A friend recently transitioned from his safe but standing-still job into a promising
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The Anchovy’s Rules of Goodwill & Good Work
Recently a famous, award-winning author invited some literary cronies and I to visit him at his rural getaway. “C’mon over,”
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How to Start Unplugging From a Plugged-in Job
Jim, one of my entrepreneurship students this summer, has led an extraordinary life.
Born in France, Jim sailed the world with
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What the Bricklayer Taught Me About Life, Death, & Work
Our Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Award bronze prize of $250 went to Florida writer Vance H. White for “The Bard of
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How to Stay Stressed
While cleaning out old paper files the other day, I ran across a printout of an intriguing e-mail message received
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Secrets of Creative Longevity from Steinbeck, Rilke, and Woody Allen
I don’t write novels in hopes of scoring rave reviews. To do so would probably be self-defeating anyway, resulting in
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