Prosperity

Daydream Believer

jbloustein — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:52:05 -0500

Did you ever have a crazy idea that wouldn’t go away? A nudge so persistent you couldn’t ignore it?

Let me tell you mine. I wanted to start a business, making aprons. You know, those 1950s Suzy Homemaker ones with big bows in back like you see in old TV shows, the perfect thing to wear when sliding snickerdoodles from the oven or serving pigs in a blanket at a party.

Like the ones my grandmother wore. The kind of retro apron you couldn’t find just anywhere, at least I couldn’t.

Heroism 101

admin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:42:00 -0500

Mark Lerer, a freshman at the State University of New York in Rockland, has a tendency to run out on his classes. "It's okay with my professors," he says. "They just prefer that I sit near the door."

Why the permissive attitude? Mark's a volunteer firefighter with the Rockland County Fire Department, and at 19 is one of the youngest members.

"You're never off duty," he explains, adding that he sometimes has to skip out on his job at a waiter as well. "Everyone understands that the firehouse is my top priority."

Olympic Inspiration

mcherkezian — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:31:36 -0600

Enjoy these inspirational shots of Olympic athletes and events, direct from the Winter Games, courtesy of photographer Andrew Burton.

Andrew has captured the beauty, grace and athletic prowess of the athletes and the uplifting message of individuals who are putting their heart and soul into doing their best.

The United States' Mirai Nagasu competes during the women's free skate figure skating finals. Nagasu finished in fourth, with a total score of 190.15

Sanctuary Space

admin — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:25:00 -0600

It took aromatherapy practitioner and licensed massage therapist Candice Courcy nine years to work up the nerve to leave her job at a Tucson, Arizona, spa and launch her own line of handmade organic body products.

Not long after that, her friend Alan McArthur asked her to be his partner in a new business, an organic day spa in Athens, Georgia.

On the Wings of Love

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:57:00 -0600

Do you collect those little bottles of shampoo and lotion from hotels? Flight attendant Nancy Rivard did, and it paid off.

But first a little bit about Nancy. She thought she had her path mapped out. She was a supervisor at American Airlines, rising up the corporate ladder. Then her father's death made Nancy take a closer look at her life, at the rungs of that ladder. She saw no higher purpose for herself.

Life Is Sweet

mcherkezian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:10:52 -0500

When tragedy struck Jessica Hagenbuch, she turned to candy—a candy business, that is.

In 2006 Jessica and her family suffered a terrible heartbreak: Her father passed away suddenly from a heart attack. Devastated, Jessica struggled to recover from the unexpected loss.

My Toughest Competitor

mcherkezian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:24:25 -0600

A crushing defeat I suffered when I was only 10 years old helped send me to the Olympics.

For it acquainted me with a deadly competitor—the other Peggy Fleming.

It had only been a year since Dad had taken me to a neighborhood ice rink for the first time. Up to that time, I had been roller-skating, playing baseball, and could shinny up a tree as well as any boy. But that first glide on the ice convinced me this was it.

The Flavors of Love

mcherkezian — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:52:54 -0600

Maybe it sounds funny, but the story of my restaurant is a love story. I should say our restaurant, because my wife, Karen, and I are partners in business and in life.

A Love of the Land

jbloustein — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:31:26 -0600

Eberhard Müller broke one of his cardinal rules in order to meet the love of his life.

“I made it a policy to never date my customers,” he said.

But when Eberhard saw the beautiful, blonde Paulette Satur sitting at a table in his restaurant one night 13 years ago, he made an exception that forever altered his professional as well as his personal life.

Spymom

jbloustein — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:47:04 -0600

Until Val Agosta’s diagnosis, few knew how passionately she—a lover of Nancy Drew mysteries as a child—fantasized about becoming a hard-boiled female gumshoe. Motivated by her illness to finally pursue her goal, Val opens her own private investigator firm and becomes an undercover mother.

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