You have a better chance of being killed by a hippo than dying in a plane crash. Unless, of course, you’re aboard Flight 12! (And I hope you are!) You can read my post on the first 6 Reasons Air Travel is Incredibly Safe, Part 1, HERE. Today I have for you 6 MORE reasons […]
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How Does MacDill Air Force Base Celebrate July 4th?
When Diane Capri readers last visited MacDill Air Force Base, FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar were hunting Jack Reacher. Jack in the Green is fiction, but MacDill Air Force Base actually exists as a unique and complex place in Tampa, Florida. How unique is MacDill? Here’s how Carlos Gaspar views it: “MacDill Air […]
When Life Hands You Lemons (Part 1)
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Martinis — With a Twist!* Life was humming along on all cylinders for a while. Born in Alabama, I grew up in a small German-American farming town north of Detroit, where I lived a book-filled childhood and followed most of the rules. Graduated from Wayne Law School cum laude […]
Who Wants Free Money?
Have you heard about the real estate investor traveling the world to give away money to lucky scavengers? He started his game by hiding envelopes of cash around San Francisco and tweeting clues about their locations under his Twitter handle @HiddenCash. Whoever finds the cash gets to keep it. Simple as that. Originally, the benefactor […]
Saturday Special: If Only We Knew…
If you were given the power to look into your future, would you? You know the possibilities as well as I do. Fortune… Fame… Lost Love… New Love… Horrific Tragedy… Thrilling Adventure… Would you look into the future if you could? I wouldn’t. I’ll take the good experiences as pleasant surprises. And the bad, well, […]
Gold Rush Surprise
If you found $28,000 in coins, you’d be pretty excited, right? Now imagine finding that much cash, in the form of coins so rare, that some of them are worth about a million dollars! I think I’d pass out. That’s what happened to a couple in California, minus the passing out part (at least as […]
Money Stashers
How much cash do you have on hand? According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, approximately $1.28 trillion dollars in cash are in circulation in the United States. Most of that is in Federal Reserve notes. One economist estimates that there’s enough cash in circulation for every American to have about $1,300. Do you have that much […]
Where Is Madeleine McCann?
So many things can happen when we are not paying attention. Jess Kimball knows what Fatal Distraction is. Here’s a real life example. But first, a question for you. If you were vacationing in Portugal from the UK, and you had a three-year-old daughter, would you allow her to sleep with the door unlocked while […]
What Happened To Jennifer Kesse?
Today would have been Jennifer Kesse’s 33rd birthday. But instead of celebrating, her family and friends are wondering where she is. Jennifer has been missing since January 24, 2006 when she failed to show up for her job at Central Florida Investments in Orlando, Florida. Jennifer was 24 years old at the time. She lived […]
Beware the Liger!
If Jack Reacher were an animal, I’m inclined to believe he’d be a liger. Ligers are big cats. They’re huge, they’re rare, and they’re dangerous. Nobody messes with a liger and lives to tell about it. Sounds like Reacher, doesn’t it? Do you know much about ligers? Probably less than FBI Agents Kim Otto and […]
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