Friendship

By Jim Selman | Bio

I am spending a few days with my best
friends
—11 guys who get together a couple of times a year to share our experience of our lives and support each other through difficult times or to celebrate accomplishments. We usually meet at Vince’s farm at least once a year. It is a magnificent property in Western New Jersey with geese, chickens, horses, a couple of llamas and lots of deer on a rolling green framing a revolutionary era stone house and two imposing red barns. 

We are all more or less in our sixties with one younger and one older. We are all in business or retired and we’ve all succeeded by most standards. Aside from lots of laughter and a few tears, we spend a lot of time listening to each other. The space we create for each other is one of unconditional love and respect, which generally allows us to express ourselves in ways in which we don’t normally have the opportunity. We are never judgmental, and whatever ‘coaching’

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Back to School Deals

As children head back to school in the coming days, now is a good time for their parents to look into the
possibility of continuing their own education with the financial support
of their employer. According to a July 2008 survey conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity in Seattle, 81% of survey participants reimburse employees for tuition and 92.5% of the large corporations (over 10, 000 people) pay for schooling. Many HR managers claim these educational reimbursement

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