"If you don't want to give me money, or a job, or something to eat," he announces loudly to the subway car, "then why not adopt me?...
Mr.Bauman's doctors had warned him and his wife that the was at high risk for a heart attack. But when the attack actually came, Mrs.Baumann still...
If you've ever fantasised about selling everything you own and paring down your possessions to the bare essentials, you're probably familiar w...
The only problem unconsciously assumed by all Chinese philosophers to be of any importance is: How shall we enjoy life, and who can best enjoy life? N...
Indeed, for a living being there is no such thing as true silence, for silence itself is a revelation of the mind and the heart, an echo of the soul o...
Everybody has blue days.These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy（脾气暴躁的）, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insig...
A Faraway Friend is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away. Without a Faraway Friend...
Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and, as is conventional, I wished her success. I was lying. What I actually wish for her is failure....
Between the preparation and the work, the apprenticeship（学徒期） and the actual dealing with a task or an art, there comes, in the experience of many you...
There is a hill near my home that I often climb at night. The noise of the city is a far-off murmur. In the hush of dark I share the cheerfulness of c...