A Good Heart to Lean onWhen I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would ...
A Lady Named LillLillian was a young French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community of River Canard, Ontario. At the age of 16, her father ...
Norah Jones: From Waitress to Superstar A young woman sits down at the piano. Her long flowing brown hair frames a friendly face. And then she begins ...
How to Grow LavenderGuess what plant is purple and smells wonderful. You are right! It is lavender, a small and beautiful flower. During my summer vac...
No Greater Loveby John W. Mansur I heard this story when I was in Vietnam, and it was told to me as fact. I have no way of knowing for sure that it is...
Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat", May 13, 1940 The leadership of Neville Chamberlain proved insufficient during the war, an...
A gray sweater hung limply on Tommy's empty desk, a reminder of the dejected boy who had just followed his classmates from our third-grade room. S...
Never did music more sink into and soothe and fill me - never so prove its soul - rousing power, its impossibility of statement. Especially in the re...
What day is it today? Is it Tuesday or Thursday? This thought raced through her mind as she sat back with her studentsgoing over the lesson that never...
Companionship of Books man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of ...