I love Saint-André cheese. If you’ve never tried it, you must run out to your local cheese vendor and sample this wonderful French "triple crème". It has a soft buttery texture and an almost melt-in-your-mouth quality. This cheese can be eaten many ways: spread on toast or crackers; with or without toppings. My favorite way of eating this cheese is thinly sliced on a leaf of Belgian endive. Besides, this cheese is made with so much fat, you don’t need the extra calories of bread or crackers. Have you any cheese favorites you want to share?

People love magic. Why? Because it takes them to a different level. It takes them to another playing surface than the one that they're on now. Magic, like inspirational music, a good film, or a choir singing in a church, offers us an opportunity to get a glimpse of the unknown and to come face to face with what lies beyond what we can normally fathom. Using magic in your sales presentation is essential to make you stand out above all others. Oh, I don't mean magic like David Copperfield practices or slight of hand tricks. I'm talking about something you might use that will light up the faces of those you're looking to sell. Is it a hand gesture, a key phrase or a twinkling smile? Tell us - where does your magic lie?

I saw the new Die Hard movie this week. It’s the latest in a series of films in which Hollywood is attempting to breathe new life into action actors from the past. Stallone resurfaced in a poor effort to bring back Rocky, and Harrison Ford has agreed to do one more Indy flick. In Die Hard, Bruce Willis returns to the screen 12 years after the last Die Hard film as John McClane, infantily suppressed, pea brained police detective whose role in life is to save America when no one else can. The story is lame, as is the dialogue. However, there is action and plenty of it. Willis’ character, still crazy after all these years, has the save-the-world formula down pat. My question: Has creativity in the film industry been sideswiped by the need to make the almighty dollar? Is bringing back the ‘old guys’ in patterned success formula movies in the best interest of the art of film making?