We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite...” I do not know who wrote those words, but I have alway...
However mean your life is, meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are rich...
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me wo...
Now as a best-selling author of picture books, Jimmy continues to assert control over his life. He works only on projects that inspire him and refuses...
In the Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck has achieved an interesting contrapuntal effect by breaking the narrative at intervals with short, impressionistic pa...
A friend of mine was giving an English lesson to a class of adult who had recently come to live in the United States. After placing quite a number of ...
If you have to go to jail, you may as well stay in a place you like. That must have been the reasoning of one Italian man who traveled to another Ital...
The Indian Who Could Foretell the Weather Two men were travelling in a very wild and lonely part of America． For days they had not even seen a house， ...
Inside the Russian Embassy in London a KGB colonel puffed a cigarette as he read the handwritten note for the third time. There was no need for the wr...
The TantrumMy mother was a vocal supporter of corporal punishment, but for all her talking she has never spanked my siblings, and me only once. Inste...