And When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son’s Memoir of Love and Loss by Blake Morrison (1994) Changed My Life Then and Still Does, Thirty-Two Years Later GUEST CONTRIBUTOR AMY GOLDMACHER Three weeks after my father’s death from pancreatic cancer, I had gone to cold and damp London to start my college junior year studying abroad. I couldn’t mourn there, sharing a tiny one-bedroom flat with two other girls, above a video store in Earl’s Court that played Mariah Carey’s “Drea

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: RASHEDA KAMARIA WILLIAMS The Possibility of Change: How This Book Transformed My Commitment to Service Years ago, I read a book that fundamentally changed how I thought about service and ultimately helped inspire the message I would one day share from a TEDx stage. At the time, I had already been volunteering and mentoring young people for several years. Giving back wasn't new to me. I believed deeply in community service and the power of mentoring. But I

Donna Reed's daughter, Mary Owen, reflects on how the gift of a classic business book influenced the life of her mother. Long before Hollywood knew her name, Donna Reed was a teenager growing up on a small farm in Iowa. The values she learned from family life—and a copy of Dale Carnegie's soon-to-become-classic business book How to Win Friends and Influence People—would leave a lasting impression on the woman she would become. The book was given to Donna by a high school teac