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I'd begun to scour the streets for coins. Even when I was riding my bicycle, I would stop to pick up pennies or the occasional nickel or dime.

I started my business on a wing and a prayer. All I knew was that I wanted to be my own boss.

I'll never forget my first camera—a Kodak point-and-shoot "Brownie. " After slipping in a roll of black and white negatives, I couldn't wait to try it out.

In the room a candle flickers, marking the space as sacred. One woman's office now becomes a spiritual sanctuary.

"One way I've heard the Library described is as an ecotone," says Stephen Danzansky, Chief Executive Officer of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity. No, an ecotone isn't an ecology-oriented music ensemble.

The headlines broadcast the ethical failures of our times: a CEO goes to prison for malfeasance, financial officers squander the retirement funds of their company's employees, accounting firms are caught suggesting how to mislead investors who read the profit and loss statements. It's easy to wax righteous after the fact.

When Barry Douglass isn't taking photos of centuries-old Ephesus, as he did during a trip last fall, he be considering the Digital Age as a metaphysical metaphor—the way he does in his leadoff article, "Digital fish" (p. 24), in our employment section this month.

If you were to go to a healing room, you would typically enter a reception room where you would fill out a form explaining the condition or issue you wanted healed. Then you would go to a waiting room, which is sometimes called the "soaking room.

Healing Rooms. Now there's a term that would pique the interest of any Journal reader.

If you're browsing through the bookshop in the Belfast City Airport, you might find a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Or, if you don't go to the bookshop, you could see an advertisement for the book high on the wall above the ticketing area, or spot an eye-catching poster in the waiting room/lunch area.