He was the president of a major advertising firm and I was a very young management consultant. I had been recommended to him by one of his employees w...
Less than a year after my wife’s funeral I was confronted with the most terrible realities of being a widower with five children.Notes from scho...
My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cudd...
The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footb...
One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell and they began talking together."You are very slow," said the ...
Dogedog had always been very lazy, and now that his father and mother were dead and he had no one to care for him, he lived very poorly. He had little...
It was a day like the day before and the day after. The wind wrapped itself around the sod cabin in gusting moans as the pioneer family within carried...
Once there was an elderly widow, Chen Ma, who lived with her only son inside a forest in the Shanxi Province. Her son was one of the tiger hunters lic...
Monsieur Signy l'Abbaye was a master artist in his day, who in 1392 was ready to retire. It was the month of May. But Guiliano Bartoli, a rich Ita...
I've never told this story before, but just the same I'm telling you now. I was a boy of 8 in 1885 and I lived in a small town out west with m...