2005 – Fort Hays State University – Fort Hays, Kansas: Nola Ochs was cleaning out a closet when she discovered a brochure from Fort Hays State University. She sent them an email enquiring about her old transcript. Academic adviser, Joleen Briggs, finally found Och’s...
July 1999 – Belleville, Michigan: Tammy and Rusty Stafford had been expecting the letter. The company where Rusty had worked for more than two decades had been sold. Rusty didn’t have a retirement plan, but the big boss, Bob Thompson, had promised that everyone would...
In early 2008, Terry and Regina Locklear sat in the office at their sock mill, Emi-G Knitting, in Ft. Payne, Alabama, wondering what the future held for them. The mill was quiet, and except for a few key employees, all the workers were laid off. On the days the plant...
No, not that F word – shame on some of you. Fail – it’s a four-letter word that we’re all too familiar with. We worry about doing it, do everything we can to avoid it, and when it happens it makes us feel downright awful about ourselves. It doesn’t matter what...
Icebergs are formed when huge chunks of fresh water glaciers break off into an ocean. They are commonly found in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. Roughly 10% of an iceberg’s volume can be seen above the ocean surface with most of the ice submerged below the...
Nocona, Texas, population 3,033, was once the “Leather Goods Center of the Southwest.” The two-stoplight town, located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, has been home to a number of boot and belt companies dating back to the cattle drives 150 years ago. Most of the...
