
If you have to go to jail, you may as well stay in a place you like. That must have been the reasoning of one Italian man who traveled to another Italian city because he preferred its jail over o [更多...]

However mean your life is, meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in para [更多...]

The Perfect Dog During summer vacations, I would volunteer at the vet’s, so I’d seen a lot of dogs. Minnie was by far the funniest-looking do [更多...]

Attitude The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is m [更多...]

A Little Piece of Me When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. There were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leav [更多...]

Lake Of Autumn I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, [更多...]

The Scar A little boy invited his mother to attend his elementary school's first teacher-parent conference. To the little boy's dismay, she said she would go. This [更多...]

Prayer for My Mother by Ann LandersDear God, Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed [更多...]

The World As I See It by Albert Einstein … My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my p [更多...]

Flowers on the Bus We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 3 years ago. During the early morning ride [更多...]

On the Feeling of Immortality in youth by William Hazlitt No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one. There is a feel [更多...]

Of LoveThe stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it does much mischief; sometimes [更多...]

I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs. The last time I w [更多...]

"Packaging" A Person A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s uniqu [更多...]
