This is something we should all read at least once a week. Be sure you read it to the end. — By Regina Brett, 90 years old. Former Writer with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It …
Read More »This seat belt ad should be seen by everyone
This is a “wear your seatbelt” ad from the UK. It was made in 2010 by some dude who was not hired to do it. But, because the cause is important to him, he came up with the idea. It’s now being hailed around the world as a beautiful and …
Read More »The Porch
A blonde teenage girl, wanting to earn some extra money for the Summer, decided to hire herself out as a ‘handy-woman’ and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her …
Read More »An Expression of Thanks
By Ashutosh Sharma On September 11, 1977, I was born in Delhi, the capital of India. There was a wave of greetings in my house, because after five years of an elder sister, a boy was born. In those days, birth of a boy was given great importance in India. …
Read More »Bombshell
BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS. It all started with a skin flick. In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie …
Read More »No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
We were going through a normal football practice. Drills were crisp, coaches coaching, everyone hustling and working hard to prepare for the upcoming game…when off in the distance, a line of cars was approaching our practice field! The line stopped at the portion of the practice field we named the …
Read More »Senile Serenity
Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, ‘How old was your husband?’ ’98,’ she replied… Two years older than me’ ‘So you’re 96,’ the undertaker commented… She responded, ‘Hardly worth going home, is it?’ ~~~~~~~ Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old …
Read More »Why I Like Retirement
Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday Question: When is a retiree’s bedtime? Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch. Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but it might take all day. Question: …
Read More »Johnny the Bagger
By Mac Anderson, founder of SimpleTruths.com Many years ago, Barbara Glanz was speaking to 3,000 employees of a large grocery chain. Her speech was on customer service and how to create memories to make the customers want to come back. At the end of her presentation, she put up her …
Read More »Jesus knows you’re here
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables when a voice in the dark said, ‘Jesus knows you’re here?’ He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off, and froze. When he heard nothing more , after a bit, he shook …
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