A frail old man went to live with his son, daughterinlaw, and a fouryear old grandson. The old man‘s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The fam...

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 ...

Grandmother didn‘t just like her coffee, and it wouldn‘t really do her justice to say she loved her coffee. Grandmother was to coffee what a sommelier is to wine. She knew the in...

  In a small village, there lived a potter. He had a donkey. Everyday his donkey would carry soil from the field to his house. Since the field was quite far off, the potter w...

  Chapter 1. I walk down a street and there‘s a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It‘s my fault.Chapter 2. I walk down the same street. I fa...

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.   "Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, &q...

  In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.‘ W...

Old-school love letters between a young Richard Nixon and the woman he would later marry have been unveiled at the former president‘s library in California, showing the poetic sid...

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...

But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, 1splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a work, to...