Occasionally, without warning, the drunken wreckage of my father would wash up on our doorstep, late at night, stammering, laughing, reeking of booze. Ban...

There are no such setbacks we could not overcome Our tolerating ability is indeed may beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential ...

   Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught ...

  The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much misc...

  My friend got married. His mother carried two bags of cotton from the countryside by bus and train to his city. After arriving at the city, there was still a long way to hi...

  We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into th...

     The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied with tasks - no matter how meaningless - staves off negative emotion...

  A vacationing American businessman, standing on the pier of a remote coastal fishing village in southern Mexico, watched as a small boat with just one young Mexican fisherma...

In 1994 I wrote a letter. I stuck it in an envelope, put it away and completely forgot about it。 It wasn’t until we moved into our new home in 2006 that I found it again. It w...

The world is changing rapidly and most people are very anxious about it. In fact, I think it might even be stronger and more accurate to say that most people are downright fearful ...