You play piano, guitar, you sing, you compose music, you make music. And when you make music, you feel free. Music is an immortal secret language— like a purifying bath for your soul, cleansing away the chaos of everyday life. And, even as a child, music was your inner voice. It was as if...

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He remembers his first gunfight and his panic attack and the shotgun malfunctioning. The slow motion agony of it. He was a newbie big city cop. On the street in a black-and-white, six weeks, a green rookie. His sergeant riding with him. Training Day. They got the “Officer Down!” call...

An old friend of mine was an Intelligence Captain with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. He told me how they always kept CNN turned on the Division Headquarters Tv, 24/7. When they would see any special report coming on, reported by a famous face, a female journalist, they would all drop...

Master Baker— where chemistry, biology, and innovation meet. You know the stories behind Keebler, Nabisco, Sarah lee, Panera, Great Harvest, Mrs Fields, so many famous names in baking. Great fortunes have been made in bread. Empires have been founded upon the abundance and scarcity of bread....

“If the soldiers force their way inside my home, I must try to kill them.” The man on his knees says this desperately. He is literally begging, explaining the price of honor. He speaks a language you understand. But only you. The rest of the squad hears only his stress. He talks so...

The big blue globe is your home. The deck of a ship has taken you all over the planet. You have good friends in so many ports. You never expected to learn another language, when you were younger, and now you speak half a dozen, well enough to have had plenty of adventures on your own. Rotterdam, New...

You drive into the high school parking lot, your wipers slashing at the heavy rain. It’s the first day of spring and students run from their cars and the school buses, into the dry halls of the high school. You’re heading for the faculty lot when you see them. At the far end of the student...

You walk the rough weedy acres of land. It’s early, the shadows are long in the rising red sun. An hour ago, you woke and got out of bed, with a vision forming on your mental canvas, like a colossal sculpture. A sculpture made of land itself. You drove out before sunrise to walk the land...

The eyes of the world are on you. You sit at a console, counting down. Your mind is totally concentrated. A dozen news media cameras scan your command center. You and your fellow experts monitor systems that feed data into computers, telling you everything needed to bring this off without an explosion,...