Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneurs’

One Smart Cookie

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

People are surprised when they learn I have my own cookie business, with my own name on the packages and a contract with a bakery.

After all, I’m only 16 years old and still in high school. I never set out to go into business. What I really wanted to do was help the homeless.

But as I look back on it now, I see that something much bigger was happening.

I came home from school one afternoon to find my mother reading an announcement in our temple bulletin. A homeless shelter in nearby Bridgeport was asking for food donations.

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A Christmas House

Saturday, December 1st, 2007
!--paging_filter--pMy favorite films always used to be about flying, movies like emTop Gun/emnbsp;and emThe Right Stuff/em. That's because I planned to be a military pilot like my father and then someday an astronaut./p pThe posters on my bedroom walls showed F-4s, the space shuttle and Han Solo's Millennium Falcon from the emStar Wars/em movies. All that changed onenbsp;afternoon whenmdash;as a 13-year-old boymdash;I foundnbsp;my mother chuckling over a movie on TV called emA Christmas Story/em. quot;Come watch this with me,quot; she said.nbsp;/p pa href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/christmas-story-movie-houseread more/a/p

It’s a Wrap

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

!–paging_filter–pVeronica Rodriguez was so bad at wrapping presents that her mom would turn down her offers to help on holidays and birthdays. /p
pPaper askew, rips and wrinkles, tape everywhere, quot;it would just turn out horribly,quot; Veronica says. quot;So I wasn’t allowed. If my mom didn’t have time to wrap everything at Christmas she’d put them in gift bags rather than ask me to wrap.quot;/p
pNeeding spending money at age 18, Veronica put in an application at Macy’s department store and was elated when they offered her a job./p
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Pink Is for Hope

Monday, October 1st, 2007

!–paging_filter–pTibetan bells chime softly as I open a door wreathed in pink roses. Pink letters spell out a welcome signmdash;Lovely Lady./p
pSoon I’ll be greeted by some very special women. quot;My ladies,quot; I call them. They mean the world to me. So does this shop. Yet if I had my druthers, I would close it down tomorrow, after nearly 30 years. Let me explain./p
pI was a young nursing student in California, full of idealistic dreams back in 1976. I didn’t know where life would take me, but like many students, I felt a desire to make a difference./p
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