I never knew my sister was so cunning, here I was at our mountain cabin, with no transportation, only a cell phone and the things she had dropped off for me. The problem was what she chose to leave me with for my stay. Not exactly what I had in mind when I had seen […]
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Samantha; No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Mom and Dad are off again to Australia; this is their second trip there. Why they are fascinated with that wilderness, I will never know. Like last time, I begged to be left behind, a month of traipsing around the outback not my idea of a vacation. I have ideas that I want to explore […]
Continue ReadingJean; Necessity Of Being Female
I awoke with a start, the images and words seemed deeply ingrained in my mind. I almost never dream, but truthfully I don’t think this was a dream. It was like watching a documentary about some event, knowing that I would be quizzed about its contents after watching it. Surreal yes, the things that are […]
Continue ReadingNoel; Female Personal Assistant
I loved to push the envelope, the more daring and provocative the sooner I did it. I guess part of the fascination with doing things that nobody else even envisaged is my upbringing during my teen years. I had regular normal parents, who worked for the state department as Ambassadors, often bland, never exciting because […]
Continue ReadingVicki; An Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt
My wife often gets carried away with an idea or project. More often than not I end up being a casualty of that process, an innocent bystander no more. This latest idea of hers scares me shitless. We have a circle of friends, thrown together over the years, but now quite close, partaking in each […]
Continue ReadingKim; Not All Prizes Are Desired
It has been an obsession the better part of my life. I couldn’t walk past a store or a display, advertising a free giveaway without filling out the form and depositing it. It didn’t matter what they were giving away, I became a willing participant in the drawing or giveaway. As I shopped I always […]
Continue ReadingTammy; A Peek Into Something Different
I had been away on a business trip for a week, a long and frustrating week, when I managed to drag my ass back home. I helped organizations and companies set up conventions, or large gatherings. That included how to arrange for the facilities, advertising the event, organizing it including registration and fees that could […]
Continue ReadingCarlie; Growing More Than Vegetables
It took me over four hours to drive that two hundred and fifteen miles to the farm. I am a consultant for organic agriculture, specializing in vegetable production. A Ms. Hollister had hired me to advise her on a new organic farm being set up to grow vegetables for the Arizona market. I am based […]
Continue ReadingJules; A CEO Albeit A Female One
It was weird as to how this all got started. I was a mid-level manager in the company, hired just a little over five years ago. We advised customers on ways to market their products, provided marketing tools, flyers, advertising, internet advertising, anything to help them do a better job selling their product. They could […]
Continue ReadingTaylor; A Surprising Reward
I am a systems analyst for a large corporation, been one for fifteen years, anxiously looking forward to retirement in a few years. It is really the only job I have had since College, hired into this company when it first started and have grown with it. I worked my way up the ladder, handling […]
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