Look for retailers to offer innovative promotional campaigns for gift cards this year, because these cards have become such as favorite with shoppers. Online redemptions, co-branding and personalization of cards are some of the features that successful retailers are initiating this year.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

At Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip, we are excited to offer scrumptiously designed gift cards to our customers. They have been very loyal to the brand, and we wanted to return that loyalty by offering a gift card with 'sweet rewards' -- no expiration date, no parking fees, and the cards are reloadable.

In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.