The situation seemed hopeless.From the first day he entered my junior-high classroom, Willard P. Frank- lin existed in his own world, shutting out his...
Horror gripped the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing ...
I have a friend who is falling in love. She honestly claims the sky is bluer. Mozart moves her to tears. She has lost 15 pounds and looks like a cover...
When I was growing up I do not recall hearing the words "I love you" from my father. When your father never says them to you when you are a ...
When I was superintendent of schools in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board of trustees（董事会）, wrote a letter that was print...
Observe a child; any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be ...
In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the "unpardonable." I gave the class homework! The assignment was to "go to someone you l...
My teammates on the United States Disabled Ski Team used to tease me about the size of my chest, joking that my greatest handicap（不利条件） wasn't my ...
It was a fine September night, with a silver moon riding high. They washed up the supper dishes and then took their chairs out onto the porch. "I...
Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over ...