The office going away party is normally a harmless ritual, but one employee leaving a US firm got an unwelcome surprise from a less-than-friendly colleague.
What a year 2016 has been, and as it slowly fades into the background, we usher in 2017 with all the optimism and confidence we can muster.
When my husband and I separated after 15 years of marriage and two children, I vowed never to have anything to do with him again.
“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” The lex talionis, as this Old Testament law is called, is supposedly the oldest recorded or known principle in the world. While this may seem like a tit-for-tat law, bordering on the vengeful, it is important to go back to its roots—the context in which it was formulated and the value it wanted to uphold.
It was a scene straight out of the drama-mystery series “Revenge.” An affluent neighborhood by the sea, giant waves crashing against the shore, and inside a beautiful, luxury beach house, the dashing character Daniel Grayson was walking towards us.
