Advice to Youth, About 1882 Mark Twain | 1882 Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said i...
My Miraculous FamilyUpon hearing her evaluation I became furious for I thought, "Who is she to tell me what I can or cannot do. She does not even...
Stars on a Snowy Night The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most ...
A Lifetime FriendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further A...
The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunda...
Enormous Debt There was no one quite like my father —— in our town of Victor. When any other man in town had an extra dollar, he bought a ...
The first memory I have of him — of anything, really — is his strength. It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ou...
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...
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 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， ...