One of my favorite books of all time is the Go Giver, by John David Mann and Bob Burg. This is an allegorical novel aimed at business professionals, but I think there are lessons for all of us. In fact, there are five laws outlined in the book, known as the Laws of Stratospheric Success. […]
By the time Taja Sevelle was 17, she had lived in the city, on a farm and in a remote forest near the Canadian border with no running water, electricity or access by car. She had studied in her own science lab complete with microscopes, slides, protozoa and data storage, she had plowed fields, tapped […]
Look to the Stars is an interesting resource that highlights and tracks celebrity involvement in philanthropic endeavors. The organization aims to attract people to the efforts of the charities themselves by publicizing the positive contributions of celebrities. Ultimately, it hopes to use a celebrity’s public value to inspire communities to become involved with charities as […]
Erin McHugh had spent many years doing her share of community work, before the minutiae of daily life eventually kept her too busy for those higher impulses. Then one day she learned a distant relative was actually going to be canonized. Was this a sign to reevaluate her priorities? What followed next was Erin’s wish […]
On Sunday, November 18th, Chicke Fitzgerald interviewed the “king of publishing” live from the Miami Book Fair International. The interview centers on James Patterson’s work with kids and instilling a lifelong love of reading. From his James Patterson Pageturner Awards to his website ReadKiddoRead.com to his regular donations of thousands of books to troops overseas. […]
