As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she collided with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction. Watch it , squirt. The boy yelled as he dodged around the little third-grader. Then, with a sm...
Located in the checkroom in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9∶05 train. I remember seeing Harry that first...
We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids arent old enough and well be more content when they are. After that we re frustrated that we have teenagers to...
laughing song When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And eh gra...
Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month becau...
Try to Remember the Good Things When times become difficult （and you know they sometimes will）， remember a moment in your life that was filled with joy and happiness. Remember how it made you feel, and you will have the strength you need to get...
In Life We Are Happiest When A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride wa...
The Blessed Dress I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. The month of January was spent planning our perfect Alabama...
①If 1)eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness. But, is heaviness truly 2)deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us. We sink beneath it. It pins u...
A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating Freedom! Freedom!. And it was suc...
I believe honesty is one of the greatest gifts there is. I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like integrity and forthrightness. But it doesn't make any difference what they call it; it's still what makes a man a good citizen. This is...
Hour in the Sun John H.Bradley I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.----- Henry David Thoreau. When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet grea...
I will live this day as if it is my last. And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping? First, I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I will waste not a moment mourning ye...
Hepburn, the Actress My mothers acting career was a second choice, a default choice. But the rules were the same as in ballet: hard wok, discipline and professionalism. Less is more was at the core of my mothers basic look philosophy. Style is a word...
Hepburns Dream My mothers dream was always to be a prima ballerina. No matter how hard she had trained her most important and formative years had passed and could not be recaptured. The war had been tough on her, and poor nutrition had impaired some...
