One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled ...
I remember the first time I got on a horse. I was two years old and we were watching a friend of the family ride. My mom agreed to let me take a short...
It's an old photograph with bad composition and lousy color. The edges are curled up and brown. But none of that matters. The photo is laced with ...
Our families camped together once a month, so when the Fourth of July fell on our scheduled weekend, we never gave it a thought not to proceed with ou...
Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in sp...
ENJOYING A SMOOCHMaybe you haven't spent significant amounts of time kissing since you were a teenager, and these days you'd rather sleep than...
1. "Nevermind, I'll just do it myself."Marriage pro tip: When you ask your spouse to call the plumber to fix the sink, give him a chance...
This single stick now is ingloriously lying in that neglected corner.Once it was in a forest, full of sap, leaves and boughs; now in vain someone has ...
You talk when you stop being at peace with your thoughts. When you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart, you will talk, and the sound bec...
They shuddered with cold, and ran down the road to the bridge. There, warm, they started walking hand in hand.A flush came into the sky. The waned moo...