At one point during the party, I made my way to the bathroom and closed the door behind me. A minute or two later, the little girl opened the bathroom...
there was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving songbirds. She took them h...
In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the “unpardonable1.” I gave the class homework! The assignment was to “go to someone you love within the...
When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand...
My grandmother was an iron-willed woman, the feared matriarch of our New York family back in the 1950s.When I was five years old, she invited some fri...
Speaking easySpeaking in public is most people s least favorite thing. the reason is that we re all afraid of making fools of ourselves. The more impo...
The trend in everyday conversation is to use grandiose words. “Outstanding“ is new “good,“ “amazing“ is the new “OK,“ and “huge“ is the new “big.“I wa...
As a college freshman at Valparaiso University, facing all the uncertainties of future academic and work life, I had the opportunity to meet with the ...
My friend Gayle has been “living“ with cancer for four years and it is proGREssively getting worse. During a conversation with another friend, Gayle e...
there was a young woman who had been diagnosedwith a terminal illness and had been given threemonths to live. So as she was getting her things“in orde...