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  By Bryan Wish Joey Coleman is on a mission to help companies keep their customers and employees. As a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and consultant, Joey helps businesses design creative ways to engage their customers and employees – especially in the crucial First 100 Days® of the relationship lifecycle. As a professional speaker who has given thousands of speeches all over the world, Joey also works with a small number of private coaching clients to develop and hone their speaking skills. His eclectic background has led Joey through the legal field, selling custom research to Fortune 500 executives, racing...

True fans of horror rarely need to turn on the lights or cover their eyes while watching something terrifying on their screens. But it’s something else when eerie, uneasy, and downright spine-chilling situations happen in real life. Then, the first and most reasonable thing we want to do is look for comfort by telling someone about it. But if you think living through a spooky experience is bad enough, it’s even worse when those you decide to share it with look at you with suspicious eyes. Reddit user chrome-hearttagz decided to find out how many such poor souls are out...

Social media is rendering high school reunions obsolete. Instead of meeting people, you can now just stalk them online to see if they turned out to be as cringe as you had hoped. However, I don't think they will disappear completely. Real-life get-togethers with your old classmates can be really... memorable. At first, I wanted to say entertaining, but as this Reddit post by user Respect_The_Box shows, that's not always the case. Asking graduates to share the worst thing that has happened at their high school reunions, it has received quite a few spicy stories that have enough drama for...

Design—and the marriage of function and beauty—was always in the air, and sea, for Brendan Ravenhill. When he was a child, for instance, his father, then chief curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, helmed an exhibit called “The Art of the Personal Object.” But it was Brendan’s childhood summers on Islesford Harbor on the coast of Maine that had perhaps the most steady, staying impact. He became fascinated by the functionality of tools and wooden boats, going on to become a year-round lobsterman, then the co-founder of Islesford Boatworks, a boat-building school on Little Cranberry Island. He...

George Hendrik Breitner, Four Cows, c. 1880–c. 1923, oil on board. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Her father would not let anyone take care of her, not even her mother — especially her mother — so he brought her everywhere, even as a baby, her car seat parked nearby while he milked. Too big for the seat now, Ger stood with him in the yard, leaning against the wind in that one-piece coat like a stumpy starfish. They were dehorning calves, or Barry was — Ger chipped in with the quieter ones, snipping hair back from their budding horns,...