Pinocchio hugged Geppetto. The old man was happy to see Pinocchio. 'I have been inside the whale for two years,' he said. 'I didn‘t think I would see you again.' Pinocchio ...

Pinocchio woke up the next morning. There was a plate of food beside his bed. He ate the food, and walked downstairs. The blue-haired fairy was sitting in a chair. She told him she...

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally — but would never run very well. The first three years of his lif...

“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...

Life at age twenty seven is nothing what I envisioned when I was a child. I imagined by age twenty seven I would be in a serious relationship border line marriage, owning my own pl...

My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would guess at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound...

  Fox hummed as he poured lemonade into molds for ice pops. He had invited Bear for lunch. “Bear will be surprised,” Fox said to himself. “He doesn’t know what a great coo...

'Why don‘t you just rest your arms and let me push you?' 'No.'  'Your arms will get sorely. I‘ve been helping you do it for three months now.' 'I wheeled myself for 12 yea...

  She was dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a sma...

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