If there’s one thing that Olin Thompson is self-aware of in life, it’s what he loves. Golfing. Surfing. Hunting. Anything with a rod and reel in his hand. “Pretty much any time I can get outside, I’m outside,” Thompson said. But he also knows that to live, you have to work. And it could be …

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Does anyone remember who coined the phrase, “the more things change, the more they stay the same?” It’s ok if you said no. Few of us probably do know who said it, but many of us have repeated it over the years. According to the Google machine, if you want to know, it was Jean-Baptiste …

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Back in 1993, on one hot, Virginia summer day, all 17-year-old Steve Snell wanted to do was get to the mall to spend the money burning a hole in his pocket. But when he got to the bus stop at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, where he was faced with a two-hour layover …

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