I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and solitude to the comfortable but rather noisy household...
Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. We're taking a survey,she says, half-joking. Do you think I should have a baby? It will change your life, I...
Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as...
It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts giving. 那是1961年的圣诞节。我在俄亥俄州的一个小镇上教小学三年级。班上27个孩子都...
If it was going to easy, it never would have started with something called labor! Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. To be in your childrens memories tomorrow, you have to...
In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the unpardonable. 最近在我执教的一个成人班级里，我干了一件不可饶恕的事情。 I gave the class homework!考试大论坛 我居然给班上的学生布置了一份家庭作业！ T...
婚姻中只有爱情是不够的,更多的应该是包容和理智.激情会逐渐消退,美好也会慢慢褪色,但是生活中相互依靠的温暖和信任是爱情给不了的.来看看小编为大家选的这篇双语阅读材料: I got marrie...
双语美文欣赏 What If Dogs Think We Are Immortal? 如果在狗狗眼里，人类是不老的神会怎么样？ Someone posted that concept on Tumblr, and the responses that came in brought tears to my eyes. 有人把这个想法分享在Tumblr上，...
想过更好的生活?试试这20个小方法 20种改变生活的方式，总有适合你的几款。分享、学习、感激、承认自己、发挥想象力、运动、体验...现在就下定决心，努力去实现；出发，遇见新的自己。...
8条箴言让你做出好的改变 Life doesn't come with an instruction manual so we do our best to move through it with grace. Just like the following 8 transformational truths, these are more of the lessons we learn (and forget) along our journeys...
如何成为人生赢家? 【双语阅读】 I want to move, but I need to have a job in the new city first. I want a relationship, and I'll get one as soon as I lose ten pounds. I'll pursue my passion, as soon as I have enough money in the bank. 我想...
美文:你要成为自己的那道光 Have you ever been around someone who immediately put you at ease? Perhaps you may be one of those people who others feel safe around. 有没有遇到过那么个人，只要他/她在你身边，你立即就觉得...
父亲节暖心语录:爸爸就是我的英雄 Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad. Ann Geddes 任何男人都可以成为一名父亲，但是只有特别之人才可称之为爸爸。安格迪斯 A father is always maki...
英语阅读美文：What is love? What is Love? The eternal question we all carry around deep within our heart. Love is the eternal search. Love is eternal when we find it. But do we really ever find it ? When we define it do we negate it? When we s...
英语散文阅读：失落的时候，这十句话说给自己听 1.Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。...
