As a little girl walking around the modest home where her father grew up in a small village in Greece, Joanna Alexis was stunned as she heard the stories of her...
Years ago, a young man walked into Karin’s Florist, a flower shop in Northern Virginia, to buy a bouquet for a first date. Not long after that, he returned to b...
As a college student, Jim Annulis saw how easy it was to aspire to greatness. Sitting in class one day, he read the line of a poem that summed it up perfectly: ...
When Jackie Asencio’s father retired after thirty years of military service as an Infantry officer, he and her mother invested their retirement money in a large...
Some people go through life with their true selves out for the world to see. Others put on masks to make it through the day. Still others have masks forced upon...
Some called him crazy. Others called him bold. But as Gustavo Calderón sailed—metaphorically speaking—through the air, he knew he had been right to leap without...
From the time she was three years old, Kara Carmichael knew that going out to dinner with her family was about more than food. “My parents really had a passion ...
In 1982, Time magazine gave its coveted “Person of the Year” award to the home computer, marking the first time in the publication’s history that the recognitio...
“No,” was the answer twenty-year-old Steve Daves received from the deans of Virginia Tech’s six colleges. He had gained admittance to the institution’s highly-c...
When he was young, Eric Dean visualized success as a business with fifty cars in the parking lot. By growing the creative spark of entrepreneurship into tangibl...
Laura Degnon’s father taught her so many things in life. He taught her how to invest in the stock market, how to run a business, and to always give the other pe...
It had been twelve years since Tom Deierlein last donned a uniform or touched a weapon. When he arrived home from a business conference in 2005 and found a West...
In 1970, Philip Downs’s father left a secure job at a Fortune 500 company and wrote a $5,000 check to purchase Cooper Materials Handling, an industrial equipmen...
As a young boy, Esteban Escobar kept careful track of his expenses and any wasted costs in his life. Yet his records did not reflect monetary transactions. Rath...
Variety is the spice of life, and Debbie Fields grew up learning how to cultivate it. Her mother, whose own mother never worked and had few options in life, wan...
