Life

The Phantom Traffic Jams
You’re cruising down the highway, getting where you want to be. Out of nowhere, you’re hitting your brakes. Then, you’re…
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Faster Than Sound
Bullets could do it. Cannon balls could do it. But no one knew whether a human being could do it.…
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The Dream Weaver
As the clock ticked down on my marriage, I was a total wreck of a human being. I faked it…
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How to Get Lucky
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur, Dec. 7, 1854 The odds of finding a four-leaf clover are about…
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Play ‘Til the Ninth Inning
Two horrible things happened to me after turning 30. I lost my job. And I lost my family. In both…
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The Vampire Test
Pablo Picasso was a vampire. The famed artist had a talent and reputation for sucking energy from the people he…
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Nothing Quite Like Home
It’s almost an out-of-body experience. Those moments when you’re somewhere else, seeing something with your own eyes that matters to…
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How to Crowdsource Book-Writing Ideas
I’m going to die. I could be well over halfway to the end as I sit here and type. And…
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The Saddest Place in the World
If the pursuit of happiness is our most-important Earthly mission, my neighbors and I are doing it wrong. According to…
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To Dust We Shall Return
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do, crumbles to the ground, though…
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