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I held onto the hand of my shivering granddaughter as we waited our turn to get into the huge barn-l... (continued)

Turkeys and cornucopias and pilgrim hats. Seasoned stuffing hot from the oven. Creamed onions, cranb... (continued)

Sandra felt as low as the heels of her Birkenstocks as she pushed against a November gust and the fl... (continued)

September 11, 2001 (Tuesday) - For all victims of the terrorism tragedy in the United States of Amer... (continued)

My grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the tim... (continued)

A parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farme... (continued)

In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning disabled children. Some children re... (continued)

Have you ever noticed that dining room tables seat six, eight, or twelve-not seven, nine, or thirtee... (continued)

At first, I saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong; so as to know... (continued)

I had not really planned on taking a trip this time of year, and yet I found myself packing rather h... (continued)

Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking ou... (continued)

A story about regret.

Ruth went to her mail box and there was only one letter. She picked it up and looked at it before op... (continued)

In the city of Chicago, one cold, dark night, a blizzard was setting in. A little boy was selling ne... (continued)

Jeremy was born with a twisted body, a slow mind and a chronic, terminal illness that had been slowl... (continued)

When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember we... (continued)

It was a bitter, cold evening in northern Virginia many years ago. The old man's beard was glazed by... (continued)

There was once a Shakespearean actor who was known everywhere for his one-man shows of readings and ... (continued)

One day a father and his rich family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to ... (continued)

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him th... (continued)