[00:00.41] Prints on the Heart [00:03.24]When night unfurls its silent splendor, please take this book and read in the lamplight. [00:09.55]Each sensation will be heightened by the people, their stories and their feelings. [00:16.31]You may read the...
[00:00.41] 2.Stopped in Silence [00:04.36]I discovered the power of fear when I became stuck to my driveway, as if my feet were crazy-glued to the cement. [00:12.42]As much as I tried, I could not move them. [00:15.90]The realization that my daughter...
[00:00.40] 3.The Giving Trees [00:03.88]I was a single parent of four small children. [00:08.13]Money was always tight, but what we had, if not a lot, was always enough. [00:13.90]My kids told me that in those days they didnt know we were poor. [00:1...
[00:00.53] 4.Dance with Me [00:04.67]When were young and we dream of love and fulfillment, [00:08.92]we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sunset. [00:15.56]No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifeti...
[00:00.74] 5.Grandpas Valentine [00:05.97]I received a call from the nursing home. [00:09.45]Grandpa was failing rapidly. I should come. [00:13.60]There was nothing to do but hold his hand. [00:16.72]I love you, Grandpa. Thank you for always being th...
[00:00.30] 6.Happy Holidays [00:05.52]In prison, holidays is the worst. [00:08.14]Birthdays, anniversaries, Thanksgiving, Christmas, even Valentines Day can be a bummer. [00:15.11]Its difficult and painful to be away from those we love to be left out...
[00:00.20] 7.Watching Me Go [00:03.68]My son Brendan cried his first day of school. [00:08.14]Even Mrs. Phillips, a kind, soft-spoken master of the six-year-old mind, could not coax him to a seat. [00:15.65]His eyes streamed, his nose ran and he clun...
[00:00.40] 8.Love Is Everything [00:04.97]The winter cold hung in the air like a frozen dinosaur trying to thaw from his glacier and walk across the earth. [00:12.60]Breath iced like a tiny morning mist upon a meandering river. [00:16.07]The sounds o...
[00:00.74] 9.The Priorities of Life [00:04.22]Friday afternoon, when I was worrying about my pregnancy and the future conflicts between work and family, [00:11.62]Dans assistant dropped a memo at my desk. [00:15.01]We were supposed to run a new set o...
[00:00.30] 10.Working Christmas Day [00:03.78]It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25. [00:08.47]I was triage nurse that day. [00:11.19]I didnt think there would be any patients, sighing about having to work on Christmas. [00:15.6...
[00:00.40] 11.A Mothers Letter to a Son Starting Kindergarten [00:05.73]Dear George, [00:07.48]When your big brother and your little dog and I walked you up to school today, you had no idea how I was feeling. [00:15.86]You were so excited, you had pa...
[00:00.20] 12.An Act of Kindness for a Broken Heart [00:05.53]Hi, Mommy, what are you doing? asked Susie. [00:10.00]Im making a casserole for Mrs. Smith next door, said her mother. [00:14.57]Why? asked Susie, who was only six years old. [00:18.27]Bec...
[00:00.62] 13.A Coke and a Smile [00:05.96]I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. [00:14.78]But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. [00:18.48]Thirsty? Gran...
[00:00.29] 14.The All-Leather, NFL Regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-Inscribed Football [00:09.34]The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. [00:13.58]A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, [00:18.81]1963 Chicago Bears-...
[00:00.42] 15.Cyber Step-Mother [00:05.75]Ive often felt that step-parent is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist, [00:13.59]for the simple reason that we need to call them something. [00:17.29]It is...
