日期：2012-11-21 When I was superintendent of schools in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board of trustees（董事会） , wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly's son, Jim, had great difficulty in school. He was classifie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-21 Observe a child; any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man; any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-20 In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the unpardonable. I gave the class homework! The assignment was to go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them. It has to be someone you have never said those words to before... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-20 My teammates on the United States Disabled Ski Team used to tease me about the size of my chest, joking that my greatest handicap（不利条件） wasn't my missing leg but my missing cleavage. Little did they know how true that would become. This past y... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-15 It was a fine September night, with a silver moon riding high. They washed up the supper dishes and then took their chairs out onto the porch. I'll get my fiddle（小提琴） , said the old man, and play you some of the old tunes. But instead of the fi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-14 Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no bullets; matches, but no f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-14 Mom, you should put some of your things away. Baby proof this house, stated our oldest son Mark as he lumbered up the stairs followed by his wife, Kim, and fifteen－month－old Hannah. Visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, he finished unloading the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-14 But what if I break my arm again? My five year-old daughter asked, her lower lip trembling. I knelt holding onto her bike and looked her right in the eyes. I knew how much she wanted to learn to ride. How often she felt left out when her friends ped... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-08 Sweet, wild berries plucked from roadside patches are a delightful side benefit of camping. Each summer, my husband Bob and I would send the kids off with their little metal buckets and the next day we would all enjoy the fruits of their labor: rasp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-30 Tess was a precocious（早熟的） eight-year-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 were completely out of money. They were moving to an apartment complex next month... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-17 The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began. A few flakes first, in the dull gray late-afternoon sky, and then wind-driven swirls and eddies around the edges of their wide front porch. He stood by her side at the window, watching s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-17 My grandfather died when I was a small boy, and my grandmother started staying with us for about six months every year. She lived in a room that doubled as my father's office, which we referred to as the back room. She carried with her a powerful ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 There is an old saying that actions speak louder than words. This isn't the case, however, when it comes to resolving conflict. Actions can make conflict worse, especially if they are violent ones. The most productive way to solve an argument is thr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 I have frequented the same chat line for more than 3 years now and have made some wonderful online friendships. However, I had become bored with the typical chat and the Internet all together. So, I decided to take a break. After about a week of bei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-15 Job was not a brilliant man. He swept floors for a living. He believed that Tarzan was a real man, and that all those movies were really documentaries of Tarzan's life. He was the butt of many jokes, yet he taught me about the essence of a 'real man... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-10-12 When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island, the staff jump into action -- Oscar can sense within hours when someone is about to die. In his two years' living in Steere's end-stage dement... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-26 March 12, 2007 issue - A few years ago, just as her father was about to disappear into the fog of dementia（痴呆） , journalist Lucinda Franks stumbled upon a small box in a corner of his dilapidated（荒废的） apartment. The contents shocked her. Be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-26 There was this guy who believed very much in true love and decided to take his time to wait for his right girl to appear. He believed that there would definitely be someone special out there for him, but none came. Every year at Christmas, his ex-gi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-20 When I was a child growing up in the Netherlands, I often begged my mother to tell me this story about an experience her family had at the end of World WarⅡ. During the terrible last winter of the German occupation, food was very scarce in the Neth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-13 Can I see my baby? the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born... 阅读全文>>