Mitch Albom: Kids in Haiti are longing for a chance to learn, but they need your help.

Tiffany Willis of Dallas has spent years climbing the corporate career ladder, working up to 70-hour weeks and pulling in about $60,000 as a middle manager.  She describes herself "as that mom sitting at the top of the bleachers at my kid's Saturday-morning football game on my cellphone for a conference call with my laptop."

She's at the peak of the mountain - 50 years young - with a child old enough to drive himself to school and a husband who comes home to make her lunch as she telecommutes to a job that helps the world.

The chaotic street scene in Oakland where police clashed with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators last week was exactly the image law enforcement had hoped to avoid.

USAToday.com writes, "NEW YORK — Kate Wolfe chased a dream when she moved to New York after college, looking to break into acting while working as a maître d'.

You suspect your co-worker might be pregnant; do you congratulate her or mind your own business? What if a colleague's parent or loved one dies—should you send a card, even if you barely know each other?