Sunrise on the eastern coast is a special event. I stood at Dolphin’s Nose, a spur jutting out into the Bay of Bengal, to behold the breaking of the sun’s upper...

  Pinocchio hugged Geppetto. The old man was happy to see Pinocchio. 'I have been inside the whale for two years,' he said. 'I didn‘t think I would see you again.' Pinocchio ...

  She was dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a sma...

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally — but would never run very well. The first three years of his lif...

“Do you know the time?”   Time is a very complex thing. We’re surrounded by it, yet all too often we feel like we don’t have enough of it. Sometimes, we take it for grante...

Life at age twenty seven is nothing what I envisioned when I was a child. I imagined by age twenty seven I would be in a serious relationship border line marriage, owning my own pl...

My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would guess at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound...

  Fox hummed as he poured lemonade into molds for ice pops. He had invited Bear for lunch. “Bear will be surprised,” Fox said to himself. “He doesn’t know what a great coo...

'Why don‘t you just rest your arms and let me push you?' 'No.'  'Your arms will get sorely. I‘ve been helping you do it for three months now.' 'I wheeled myself for 12 yea...

They‘re gone now. 他们已经走了。 I stood in the driveway and watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their vehicl...