The "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series has been an unqualified success. It has generated over eighty best-sellers. The first book alone sold eight million copies. The "chicken soup" trademark has been transferred to other products including greeting cards and a television show. It was not so easy, however, to...

News reports recently told the story of a nine-year-old San Diego boy who took over at the wheel of his family car and got caught driving it. In some ways, however, the boy was a hero. He took the wheel because his father was too drunk to...

College professor and business speaker Steve Boyd tells of getting into a cab to get from the airport to downtown Chicago. He noticed that the cab was immaculate and complimented the cab driver. As they talked together, the cab driver asked Boyd if he remembered Sam Cooke. Boyd replied...

In his newest book, The Eighth Habit, Stephen Covey reports that what the inventor and innovator, Buckminster Fuller wanted on his epitaph. Fuller said that his tombstone should read, "Just a trim tab." What in the world did he mean by that? A trim tab is a small...

I'm sure we all continue to miss Charles Schulz and the wonderful messages he taught through his characters in Peanuts. There is an old Peanuts strip that shows Charlie Brown and Schroeder walking and in a deep discussion. Schroeder asks, "Is Snoopy a hunting dog?" "I guess he...

Forgiveness

According to the People's Almanac, there was a shower of several thousand rubles that fell in the Gorki region of Russia in 1940. No one has ever been able to completely explain the phenomena. One possible explanation is that a landslide uncovered the treasure and a tornado picked it up and...

For the last 15 years a white haired businessman has been using the name "Jesus Christ." He has a passport, driver's license and social security card with Jesus' name on it. According to the Associated Press, he is having trouble in West Virginia as he prepares for a move there. They won't...

A man was coming out of church and stopped to greet the minister. The minister grabbed the hand of the man and pulled the man aside. The preacher said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" The man replied, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." The puzzled minister...

Consider some of these pearls of wisdom that have been passed on to us by way of the Internet. 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. 2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. 3. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. 4. Seen it all, done it all, can't...