My friend got married. His mother carried two bags of cotton from the countryside by bus and train to his city. After arriving at the city, there was still a long way to hi...

  We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into th...

     The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied with tasks - no matter how meaningless - staves off negative emotion...

  A vacationing American businessman, standing on the pier of a remote coastal fishing village in southern Mexico, watched as a small boat with just one young Mexican fisherma...

In 1994 I wrote a letter. I stuck it in an envelope, put it away and completely forgot about it。 It wasn’t until we moved into our new home in 2006 that I found it again. It w...

The world is changing rapidly and most people are very anxious about it. In fact, I think it might even be stronger and more accurate to say that most people are downright fearful ...

  One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, an...

Life is short. Are you doing what you love? Are you living your passion? If not, why? I am guessing most people will answer that question with 'I have a mortgage, a spouse and t...

  A hike was the perfect order of the day. The boys were excited about the idea. It would be a good workout and it would be good to be together.   We planned to leave i...

We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren‘t old enough and we‘ll be more co...