In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark — she could no longer see or hear. Bec...
A long time before I was born, my Grandma and grandpa moved into the house on Beechwood Avenue. They had a young family-of 4 little girls .The little ...
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 fr...
Love: The One Creative Force A college professor had his sociology class go into the Baltimore slums to get case histories of 200 young boys. They wer...
Growing RootsWhen I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at u...
I recently lost my best friend Arnold in an automobile accident while moving my family to our new home in Arizona. Arnold was an 8-month-old pot belly...
He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. O...
The Arc Angels Several years ago, Iris Arc Crystal, a company I co-founded with Francesca Patruno, experienced a lull in business. We had recently hir...
Childrens TiffTwo little kids went out to play In their backyard one summer day. They gazed at cotton candy sky, And argued as the clouds sailed by. “...
A little boy asked his mother “why are you crying?““Because i'm a woman,“ she told him.“I don't understand,“ he said.His mum just hugged him a...