It's just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription（题词，铭文）. It has peeked...
You went to the butcher's for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in W...
A few years ago, my younger sister and I were the first ones down the tunnel to board our flight for Norfolk, Virginia. Just as we were about to board...
Seventy-three-year-old George McNeilon selected his food in Value Mart more carefully than NASA chose its candidates for the space shuttle. Skim milk ...
The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled（推挤，争夺） the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. "How embarrassing...
It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts giving.A ...
I recently heard a story from Stephen Glenn about a famous research scientist who had made several very important medical breakthroughs. He was being ...
It was only a few weeks after my surgery, and I went to Dr. Belt's office for a checkup. It was just after my first chemotherapy（化学疗法） treatment.M...
Edward Wellman bade good-bye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family's savings hidden in ...
There once lived a landlord who loved money as he loved his own life. In his eyes the smallest coin seemed as large as a millstone. He was always on t...