Candy couldn’t have been more happy and excited that she had actually won something and was really going to take a trip. The package included a four-night stay in one of the five star Jaipur hotels for herself and one friend. She won this trip by placing in the top five highest ranked sales staff. [...]
As a kid we would always go to Hampton, VA in the fall to visit my grandparents. They had a summer home there on the Chesapeake Bay near the campus of Hampton University. We would go down in the fall to spend the last warm days on the beaches there that by that time, early [...]
April was a cellist from Boston, Massachusetts. She had recently graduated from the Ohio University with a master’s degree in music performance. She also had a bachelor’s degree in music, though she had taken five years off of school between degrees to go out and get some professional playing experience. One of the things she [...]
Relaxing is easy when you have your own hot tub. It becomes a secondary habit, where when you know you’re feeling out of sorts, had a particularly long day, or even just a sore leg muscle, to get into the hot tub and let the heat and the bubbles work out the troubles. There’s a [...]
When you ask an actor in a small town, where they want to be on stage. When you ask a playwright, where they want their work put up. When you as a theatrical singer, where they want to perform…the answer has been for decades…Broadway! of course. As the famous song goes, making it on Broadway [...]
It’s always a comfort to know that the place where you’re renting from is reputable, and has a solid record of service, responding to the needs of its clients in an efficient and capable manner. At TransGlobe Property Management, we offer you all this and more. We’ve been serving Canada’s neighborhoods for 15 years, and [...]
Sally was a mildly successful twenty something violinist who had all the ingredients of forging a healthy career in music. This is an incredibly difficult thing to do, and the classical or symphonic music industry is enormously competitive. It’s easy to understand when considering that there are a finite and relatively small number of professional [...]
Last semester I was accepted into a summer university exchange study program. I’m a student at Oregon State and am getting ready to spend this summer studying at the University of Madras in India. I’m incredibly excited about the trip, though I’m also kind of nervous because I don’t know anyone else who will be [...]
Customer Service skills have always been an important aspect of any company’s policies, and are particularly relevant for any business that had direct interaction with the consumer or client. This can include various services and also product sales. Many theories argue the increasing importance of excellent customer service in this increasingly competitive world market. Intelligent [...]
It really good to be back with the In-crowd and staying at one of the business hotels Singapore has to offer the elite business person. Not much has changed since I was last here, only six month ago. I spent my first night in the bar of the hotel. It was nice to just relax [...]
I took my wife to the San Francisco Bay area for our 5 year anniversary. I planned it as a surprise and let me tell you that was not easy! For one thing I am not good a lying and have a really hard time not giving myself away when it comes to trying to [...]
Denise is an avid traveler although most of her friends complain that she never wants to go to the popular places. Denise’s response is that every place is popular; it just depends on whom you ask. Meanwhile, some of our friends rarely have the time or resources to travel as much as Denise does and [...]
Hawaii is the dream destination for most travelers. Its weather being the prime reason people enjoy the island so much. Because its temperature affect everything from the landscape to the ocean waves, it is little wonder that Hawaii is famous for its gorgeous weather. With Maui vacation packages or any kind of deal you get [...]
Shakespeare wrote unfavorably about lawyers in his play Henry VI. During that time period as well as the current times, being a lawyer is a tough job. The day one sets out to determine to become a lawyer, they will face that fact, and just may find that they are working in one of the [...]
Located in the heart of downtown Phoenix, at Monroe and 2nd Street, is the Herberger Theater. For many years, the only venue downtown to catch performances of touring theater companies and the Phoenix Symphony was just title the Phoenix Symphony Center. Throughout the 1970′s and 1980′s, the building was a multi-arts complex, where one could [...]
Today in was the day where Billy and I hitch a flight to Phuket, Thailand. I woke up before the sunrise and went to the front of the house to meet up with Billy and his grandmother. His grandmother was quite a funny lady. She claimed to be 92 years old, but that age changed [...]