In the USA, there is a solid-paying profession that attracts over 3 million people, people of all sexes and ages and backgrounds, who have one thing in common— they crave a life of daily non-routine, with no one looking over their shoulder. These are people who crave new sights daily, new vistas....

The shotgun feels cold in your hand. The extended mag tube is heavy, leaded alternately with slugs and buck. The late summer sun is going down and the light is fading fast. You move slowly through the deep shadows, and you drop into a gully to watch and listen. Beer cans and trash. Mud. Meth waste....

The Academy Awards are coming up fast, again. For you out there who aspire to write movies, let’s look at the backbone of film creation. As a member of the Writer’s Guild West, Erudio voted in the WGA awards for best screenplay. Top of my list? UP IN THE AIR, PRECIOUS, HURT LOCKER. Each...

Do you want to change the world? Do you wonder why politicians don’t make the changes you see that seem so urgent, so obvious— the changes you believe desperately need to be made? Then maybe you should dive into the political process, and fight for those changes yourself. But, you say,...

Hardly more than a century ago, the “Industrial Revolution” ate workers. Its mines crushed them, its mills incinerated them, its machines shredded them. Men, women, children alike, were need in vast numbers to feed the new machine world with raw materials that machines turned into goods....

Today we look at a young poet, an emerging artist of words. Yes, I said “Poet.” Poet? One who makes rhymes? Can this be a way of life? Can anyone make a living writing poetry? Or is it solely for pure personal satisfaction? Are poems still relevant? Our childhood begins with rhymes,...

They wanted to quit. They couldn’t. They tried, dear God, they tried so hard to quit, but the withdrawal symptoms broke them, like a visit to hell. They needed therapy, professional help that might have saved them. But they didn’t find it. So they self-medicated, they used drugs to...

When the stock market rises, you make bank. When the market falls, guess what, you also make bank. You run the money. You know the money. You buy the money and you sell the money. It’s not even money to you, it’s numbers, global numbers. But you make a truckload of the stuff when you...

Does 2010 scare you, future job-seeker? Look ahead, look far ahead to starting your career. Then look around at where we are now. Yes, times are tough. You know you want to have work that is in demand. There is one job segment where new grad hiring is up a whopping 11%! This kind of grad is...

Nursing was your dream. As a child, you couldn’t imagine a nobler life of service to others. When you had your appendix out at age 11 that time, the nurses were like mothers, only better. They took away pain and left love in its place. And that was when you decided that nursing was all you...