One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his ... 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

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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

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

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

On Nov. 18, 1995, violinist Itzhak Perlman, performed a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. Stricken with polio as a child, Perlma... Read More

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

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

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical... Read More