The Best Kind of Love
I have a friend who is falling in love. She honestly claims the sky is bluer. Mozart moves her to tears. She has lost 15 pounds and looks like a cover girl. Im young again! she shouts exuberantly. As...
View ArticleThe Heart Knows Best
The D-word. Its most peoples worst fear, but, in a bittersweet way, it was my greatest joy. In divorce, you gain something and you lose something. There is no way around it, and in the end, it is best...
View ArticleHow to Find Time for Yourself
Do you ever find yourself longing for some time for yourself? Many of us are so busy with work, school, and Home life that often there is no time left over to do something that you enjoy. What follows...
View ArticleWhen Did She Really Grow Up
Every night after I tucked her into bed, I sang to her, a silly song, a made-up song, our song. Stay little, stay little, little little stay; little stay little stay little. She would giggle and I...
View ArticleCare for Your Dream
My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are...
View ArticleMy Very First Love
Yes this may be surprising, I was only 13 years old that time. But, don't know how or why it happened to me so early. I fell deeply in love with a guy, who I used to think was annoying 2 months ago. It...
View ArticleA Simple Plan
I found my great love for fishing while growing up on the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona. Whenever my uncles or neighbors went fishing, I grabbed my tackle box and fishing pole and jumped in...
View ArticleA Special Breakfast
Until last year, the greatest sorrow of my life was that my wife Alice and I couldnt have any children. To make up for this in a small way, we always invited all the children on our street to our house...
View ArticleToday I begin a New Life
Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediority. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is...
View ArticleThe Missed Blessings
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was...
View ArticleSaying I Love You
When I was a new mommy, I invented a quiet little signal, two quick hand squeezes, that grew into our familys secret I love you. Long before she could debate the merits of pierced ears or the need to...
View ArticleTaking a Stand
The summer before fifth grade, my world was turned upside down when my family moved from the country town where I was born and raised to a town near the beach. When school began, I found it difficult...
View ArticleBeautiful Smile and Love
The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition，and I told the sisters: You take care of the...
View ArticleA Goodbye Kiss
The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. How embarrassing.I am getting so clumsy in my old age. Everyone had a good...
View ArticleLove in a Box
When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment. On a Friday night I made an announcement at the dinner table. The words bubbled out in a torrent of excitement I could...
View ArticleYou’ll Never Regret it
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...
View ArticleYou Did Good
My dad grew up during the Depression and later fought in World War II. When he was born, his own father was too old and tired to invest any time in his only child, so my dad learned early on how to...
View ArticleLife Is a Bag of Frozen Peas
A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a vegetable, I decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it slipped from my...
View ArticleHungry for Your Love
It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shivering in my thin rags, still in disbelief that this...
View ArticleLearning of Value
I saw something a bit disturbing last week. I had to stop at a drugstore to pick something up, and while there I saw a kid about thirteen years up buy a Monster drink, about 24 ounces of caffeine fix....
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