Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an avid reader so he spent most of his free time in the library. The lib...
There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess；but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled all over the world in hopes of finding such a lady；but there was always something wrong. Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they wer...
Why don't you just rest your arms and let me push you? 你为什么不让自己的胳膊轻松一下，让我来推你呢？ No. 不用。 Your arms will get sorely. I've been helping you do it for three months now. 你的胳膊会酸的。三个月来...
9月不觉来临，又即将悄然逝去，他终于收到了另一封熟悉的来信。无疑是她的笔迹。邮戳标明寄自另一个遥远的城市。他撕开信封，最初还以为里面空无一物，随后才发现有一根从信封中飘落...
A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. 一群毕业生，各自在事业上都已有所建树，相约一起去看望他们年老的大学教授。 The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work...
Do you know the time? 你知道时间吗？ Time is a very complex thing. Were surrounded by it, yet all too often we feel like we dont have enough of it. 时间是个非常复杂的东西，它无处不在，又常常让我们感觉不够用。 Some...
A teenage boy lived alone with his father. The two of them had a very special relationship. Even though the son was always warming the bench, his father was always in the stands cheering. He never missed a football game. This young man was still the...
The swallows and sparrows are very pleased to find a place on the roof of the hall for their nests. The mother birds are feeding their babies with pleasure, which assumes a scene of peace and harmony. But they have never thought of the following scen...
Its wonderful to be back in my boyhood hometown again to visit with my now elderly mother. It seems like centuries ago when I was growing up here. Back then, this small town was just a backdrop that formed the unremarkable environment in which I live...
When Mary Van Beke was growing up in the 1920s, she lived in Newark, N.J., and was the oldest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Europe. And as Mary tells her son, Charles, her parents managed a modest life for the family, until an ac...
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. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the old Texaco service...
A squirrel, merrily leaping on the branches of an oak tree, accidentally missed its hold and fell upon a lion who lay at the trunk, basking in the shade. His Majesty awoke in anger, and, raising his shaggy mane, displayed his terrific teeth to the tr...
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long...
It happened that a country man was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other Birds were hopping about picking up their food. Be ware of that man,said the Swallow. Why, what is he doing? said the others. Those are hemp seeds he...
My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that young men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them. For instance who to trust, how to care for others, and how to live life to the fullest. Recently, John lost his...
