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...

“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...

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...

导读：或许我们的意识里有太多“理所当然”，因此我们极少对父母说“感谢你们”，对老师说“多谢栽培”，对保洁的叔叔阿姨道一句“辛苦了”…&h...

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house.   In a hurry to dive into the cool water,h...