here is a site i have spent a few hours on recently... it's called Other People's Stories .. it basically has stories that other people have contributed... some are funny..some sad and others are just bizarre... here is one abt the worst toast ever.. this one really spoke to me.. and here is a short one that i just read...

Sona Avakian On String Theory

My coworker helped her grandmother move out of her home recently. She was 94, she'd broken her hip and now had to move from a small house in the mountains to a residential care facility in the city. The whole family helped pack up her things and prepare the house to be rented. Like almost everyone who lived during the Depression, she had saved everything. In the attic they found a medium-sized box that was labeled: pieces of string too short to use.