I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have ea... Read More

Felice R. Prager writes in Reader's Digest (August, 1999) that the kids had been driving her nuts, asking her to buy them a talking bird, until she finally got ... Read More

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn?t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentl... Read More

"Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a m... Read More

A story about an old Bendix washing machine helped one man get through the valley of loss. * His parents acquired the washer when John Claypool was a small b... Read More

There is a difference between education and experience. Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it! ... Read More

Vincent Van Gogh was not always an artist. In fact, he wanted to be a church pastor and was even sent to the Belgian mining community of Borinage in 1879. He di... Read More

During the waning years of the Great Depression of the 1930's in a small southeastern Kansas community, I used to stop by Mr.Miller's roadside stand for farm fr... Read More

Tess was a precocious eight years old when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they w... Read More

Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class on that first day of school in the Fall and told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at ... Read More