Bookstore shelves are stuffed with management motivation books, urging executives to emulate happy Seattle fishmongers or to ponder analogies about missing cheese wedges. In crafting a system that relies on positivity and support,... Read More

Who wouldn’t want a personal answering service for the daily questions that flood our minds; answers to questions about relationships, careers, spirituality, and the like; personalized wisdom delivered straight to our hearts? But where... Read More

A mother’s dying request rips her family apart in Linda Spear’s debut novel. “Find David!” orders the mother of Sarah, narrator of "I Know You by Heart". Naturally, Sarah, her dad, her husband, her sister Tessa, and her... Read More

Bruce Cloud spent most of his professional career working for the H. B. Zachry Company, a leading construction firm based in Texas. He was president of the company from 1987 to 1993 and vice chairman of the board from 1993 to 1994. In... Read More

According to Dr. Donald DeMarco of Kitchener, Ontario, author and psychiatrist Samuel Nigro is nothing like the clichéd therapists so often found in film and on television. He claims that Nigro is “eager to work overtime to provide... Read More

As she did previously with the Book of Genesis, author Veda Duff Tohline has created a marvelous collection of character studies of the personalities in the Book of Exodus. "Citizens of Time in the Exodus" provides a detailed account of... Read More

In the film, The Shawshank Redemption, the narrator recalls his first night in prison, saying, “When they put you in that cell, and those bars slam home, that’s when you know it’s for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of... Read More

In improvisational jazz, it’s common for a soloist to take a riff or a phrase of a beloved song and musically change it so that listeners can hear something entirely new —a song that acknowledges the original idea while expanding or... Read More