日期：2012-09-13 Charles Chuck Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese pri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-10 Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don't act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-05 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 girls slept in the attic in a big feather bed. It was cold there on winter night. Grandma put hot b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-14 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 would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-08-07 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 dog I'd ever seen. Thin curly hair barely covered her sausage-shaped body. Her bugged-out eyes always seemed surprised. And he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-07-11 I was going away for a few days and left my husband a list of chores. For fun, I put down as Item 5: Think about your wife a lot. After I returned, my husband proudly reported that he had completed every job. When I saw the list, however, each item... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-28 The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy（忧郁） on that Sunday in May. After all, it was Mother's Day -- and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio. She had called her mother that morn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-27 My mother was a vocal supporter of corporal punishment（体罚） , but for all her talking she has never spanked my siblings, and me only once. Instead she found ways of punishment that left a more lasting memory then the short sting of a swat on our... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-19 There was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that can't be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-08 I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore（民间传说） that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another. Howeve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-07 BALLET. Is it just about men prancing（以后脚腾跃） around in tights while women follow along in tutus（芭蕾舞短裙） ? Or does the high class art form offer us something more to think about? Last weekend, the New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-06-07 Xiang Haiqing (not his real name) gained a sort of name recently, but not a very good one. The 22-year-old Shanghai Fisheries University student is now known for living way beyond the limits of average poor students. Xiang was being supported by act... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-16 The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, settled in to one. She placed her briefcas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. I started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife's idea. I know that you love her, she said one day, taking me by surprise. But I love YOU, I protest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-26 If you have ever gone through a toll booth, you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. It is one of life's frequent non-encounters: You hand over some money; you might get change; you drive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-12 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his father for th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-11 The most difficult problem for the overseas students to overcome might be loneliness. There is a popular dialogue in our class. Why are the Asian students so slim? Because we are too homesick（想家的） . Homesickness is always with me, particularly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-11 After the graduation from the university in Xi'an in 2001, I had been an English tour guide for over two years in Guilin, which is enjoying the reputation of having the most beautiful mountains and rivers in the world. The job was actually quite goo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-02 The girl would turn her cell phone off and put it by her photo on the desk every night before going to bed. This habit has been with her ever since she bought the phone. The girl had a very close boyfriend. When they couldn't meet, they would either... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-02 Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother's Sandringham retreat（休息... 阅读全文>>