Young teens have been doing amazing things lately, from climbing Mount Everest to making prom dresses out of gum wrappers to sailing solo (non-stop) around the world. 16-year-old Abby Sunderland started her ocean journey on January 23 from Marina del Ray, California in her boat, “Wild Eyes.”  A Southern California native, Sunderland followed in the footsteps of…

On June 12, 2010, Anne Frank would be 81. She was born in 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany and died in a concentration camp in 1945. Two years after her death, her father published her now famous diaries. Her wisdom is available in The Diary of Anne Frank. As one of the most quoted and celebrated victims of the…

We’ve all heard the unbelievable horror stories of being fired from jobs for misusing Twitter, but how about finding a job because of Twitter? After Renee Libby was laid off from her job in Baltimore, she began following PR executives on Twitter and tweeting relevant PR news every hour.  Soon, she had accumulated followers and…

Guest Post by Wendy SchumanWeddings are always highly emotional events–but in the case of one Indianapolis couple, the extremes of joy and sorrow, life and death, intersected all too closely. The van carrying bride and groom Lauren Magee and Tom Hanley and their bridal party crashed into another vehicle before the wedding, killing one groomsman,…

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