A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, ...

   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 pleasu...

It’s 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 ...

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, ...

'What shall I do,' said a very little dog one day to his mother, 'to show my gratitude to our good master, and make myself of some value to him? I cannot draw or carry burdens like...

In the remote southern seas there is a cluster of islands. The weather is fair, the land is fertile and the ocean is rich with fish. Each island is inhabited by a different race of...

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...

Pencil: You know, I‘m really sorry. Eraser: For what? You didn‘t do anything wrong. Pencil: I‘m sorry, cause you get hurt because of me. Whenever I make a mistake, you are alw...

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...

Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. ...