A devoted husband is keeping his wife's fading memory alive by reading from the diary he has kept for more than 70 years of their marriage. Jack P...

  When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him ...

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. ...

An only child, a perfectly ordinary little girl in rural Wisconsin, I wanted sisters more than anything. When I turned seven, my parents made a decision that delighted me beyond me...

  There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn‘t have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went...

Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, so when he got on to the p...

A Jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy‘ at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.  'You are employed' he sa...

One day, an acquaintance met Socrates and said, 'Do you know what I just heard about your friend?'   'Hold on a minute,' Socrates replied. 'Before you talk to me about my frie...

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, ...

Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...