My father was an exceptional man. He may not have been a perfect man. But he was a good man. And he loved us. All I wanted to do today was to give him...
Anytime I see banana pudding on a menu, I'm filled with an euphoric（精神愉快的） sense of well being and taken back to a special moment in my life when ...
After 20 years as a full-time wife and mother, I decided now that my kids were grown, I needed a part-time job to keep me busy. I decided to drive a s...
On Sundays my father always wore that dull（呆滞的，阴暗的） gray apron（围裙） – the one with the race cars all over it. The ritual（仪式，惯例） began after break...
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-ye...
Why and how I got myself into this situation is still unclear to me. A lady friend, a quite good looking lady friend, asked me to check her two cats w...
The cabby（计程车司机，马车车夫） has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying s...
I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus（病毒） that causes AIDS. The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been...
I was born with a rare birth defect天生缺陷 called TARSA Syndrome综合症, which means I am missing the radius桡骨，半径 bone in my forearms. My arms were shorter b...
Elizabeth and I are 18 now, and about to graduate. I think about our elementary-school friendship, but some memories have blurred使模糊不清. What happened ...