Last night I attended an event at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, which is located in the Lasky-DeMille Barn, said to be Hollywood’s Oldest Movie Studio. The Barn itself is a separate story that I’ll tell another day. Today I want to write about Mike Oldham, last night’s speaker, because his story is an inspirational story about following your passion.
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Brownie Wise made her name using home parties to sell Tupperware. She was not the inventor of the home party sales method, but she was a master at it. This
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Most of us love going to the movies. Whether we are there to be entertained, enlightened, or to be exposed to other worlds, we love sitting in the darkened theater to “be told a new story.”
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On April 20, 2012 most of the Boston citizenry will be wearing something that designates them as the loyal Red Sox fans that they are. Tomorrow they will celebrate the centennial their beloved ballpark with a game against the New York Yankees. One hundred years ago on this date they played the New York Highlanders who would later become the Red Sox arch rivals–the New York Yankees. (In that first game, the Red Sox were victorious.)
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Every April 15 Americans face a day of tax reckoning. (When April 15 is a Sunday as it was this year, then the filing deadline is April 16, and this year the fact that Washington, D.C. is celebrating Emancipation Day as a holiday today has moved the filing deadline to April 17.)
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How did Friday the 13th become a day surrounded by superstition? In checking into the background of it, I was surprised to learn that Friday itself has long been viewed
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