A cab driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to impart this kind of training to corporate executives and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride. I had flown into...
But what if I break my arm again? my five year-old daughter asked, her lower lip trembling. I knelt holding onto her bike and looked her right in the eyes. I knew how much she wanted to learn to ride. How often she felt left out when her friends peda...
Names Titles 美式的名字与称谓What's in a name? According to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, not too much. That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But Shakespeare may have been wrong. In most cultures, names and title...
Warble For Lilac-Time为丁香花季节而歌唱Warble me now for joy of lilac-time,(returning in reminiscence,)Sort me O tongue and lips for Natures sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,Gather the welcome signs,(as children with pebbles or stringing s...
弗里达布赖特说过：只有在歌剧中，人们才会为爱而死。 的确，你不会因为爱一个人而死。有人会因为得不到爱而死，可从未有人因被爱而死。 Freda Bright says, Only in opera do people die of love. It'...
God and FatherWhen the good Lord was creating fathers, He started with a tall frame. And a female angel nearby said, What kind of father is that? If you're going to make children so close to the ground, why have you put fathers up so high? He won't b...
In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at the face of my 23-year-old son, Daniel, his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye. In a few hours he would be flying to France. He would be staying there for at least a year to learn another lang...
俗话说：三岁看大，七岁看老，可以说幼儿园的启蒙教育对于你的一生有着至关重要的作用，一起来读下面这篇文章，你会发现，很多被认为最能体现一个人素养的好习惯原来都是在幼儿园里...
I want to knowIt doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for...
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is to...
Life's BalanceImagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them: work, family, health, friends, and spirit, and you're keeping all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you dro...
Flying HighOne windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against th...
Home TruthIt was the smell of rain that I missed the most and the sound of a lawnmower and the waft of cut grass. It was being out in the open and standing bare foot! Blue skies part and parcel of it all; the thunder that would blast over and leaveth...
The Invisible Wall 和丈夫堕入爱河那一刻，我们正坐在旧公寓的客厅里，眼前的白色长窗帘垂落在落地窗前。我们边聊天，边细呷着滚烫的黑咖啡。我们可以就一直这么坐着聊天有时候可以聊到第...
Forgotten and Forgiven 那天下午，我坐在学校二楼的窗沿上，看着一辆辆过往的汽车，心不断地往下沉。我们班的年终派对将在那天举行，我已经盼了好几个星期了。那个星期，老师还在黑板上弄了...
