One day shortly after I had come home from college, my father was outside doing yard work. He found a baby bird under a tree and assumed it had fallen...
My teen-age daughter was preparing to return home after having visited her grandparents for a few weeks one summer. Her grandfather gave her 12 post c...
When my husband, Jack, was a police officer, he once approached a home guarded by two ferocious dogs. They lunged at the screen door with such force t...
On a business trip to India, a colleague of mine arrived at the airport in Dilhi. He took a taxi to his hotel, where he was greeted by his hospitable ...
My daughter Judy, who works for a plumbing company, found herself in need of a plumber at home. When she got to work, she asked that a plumber be sent...
A school teacher friend of mine injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. On his first day of the term, still...
It was rush hour and I was dashing to a train in New York City's Grand Central Terminal - As I neared the gate, a plump, middle-aged woman sprinte...
Reading water meters in an unfamiliar part of town, I came upon a house with no number. Then I noticed an elderly man gardening at the first house on ...
A man walked into a doctor's examining room. “Put out your tongue,“ the doctor said. The man put out his tongue and the doctor said. “0. K. You...
Vacationing in Hawaii, my husband and I went out to dinner one night at one of its finest restaurants - When presented with the check, my husband reac...