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  • A Dance with Dad
      I am dancing with my father at my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. The band is playing an old-fashioned waltz as we move gracefully across the floor. His hand on my waist is as guiding a...
  • The Real Meaning of Peace
      There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really li...
  • Better Attempt Than Never
      I am strong in my belief that love can be a path rather than a wall, only if you have an optimistic outlook on life. Believe it or not, you will find there is something in what I shall say after...
  • Beautiful, She Said
      I never thought that I understood her. She always seemed so far away from me. I loved her, of course. We shared mutual love from the day I was born. I came into this world with a bashed head an...
  • A Wolf's Tale
      With all her big brothers and sisters off to school, our ranch became a lonely place for our three-year-old daughter, Becky. She longed for playmates. Cattle and horses were too big to cuddle and fa...
  • Gaining and Losing
      On one occasion Sadhu Sundar Singh and a companion were traveling through a pass high in the Himalayan mountains. At one point they came across a body lying in the snow. Sundar Singh wished to...
  • 20 Keys to a Happy Life
      1. Compliment three people every day.  2. Watch a sunrise.  3. Be the first to say "Hello."  4. Live beneath your means.  5. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.  6. Never give...
  • The Importance of Being Honest
      In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.  On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music...
  • What is Love?
      A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds: "What does love mean?" The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what y...
  • The Salty Coffee
      He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him.  At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him...
  • Keep on Singing
      Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. They find out that the new baby...
  • Time to Learn
      A young but earnest Zen student approached his teacher, and asked the Zen Master:  "If I work very hard and diligent how long will it take for me to find Zen."  The Master thought about this...
  • The Me To You Story
      The oldest, smallest house you can imagine was about to be knocked down. All the things that once made the house nice and cozy had been thrown outside and piled up in the front garden, from the...
  • Download Love
      With the widely-spreading use of computers and Internet, it is easy for us to download many things ranging from MP3 to Chatting tools, still there is something that you cannot download only with...
  • SHMILY
      My grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word "shmily" in a surpris...
  • World of Smiles
      About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop,...
  • Love You
      That was a late October evening, the very first day that I ever saw you. Love at first site you may say. What a feelings. I knew right then that I will be spending rest of my life with you. I s...
  • The 11th Box
      What is your most memorable Thanksgiving? For me, it was on the eve of the day. The church had the names of 10 families scheduled to receive food baskets. A local merchant donated hams, and groce...
  • To Tell The Truth
      “Who did this?” asked my teacher. Thirty children tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what our teacher may have found out. “Who did this?” asked my teacher once more. S...
  • The Red Ribbon
      Everyone wants a blue ribbon. Blue. First place. The best. Even kindergarteners want that blue ribbon. In sports, I was never a blue-ribbon person. In a race I was always last. In baseball I wa...
  • The Power of Gratitude
      When my older son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, my first reaction was relief - I finally knew the reason for his behavior. However, I was also overwhelmed with sadn...
  • How to Be a Good Listener
      When I first went to London as a student I sat alone during parties with my glass of wine. I hoped people would think that someone might come up to me and say, “Excuse me! I hope you won't mind...
  • The Legacy
      When my husband, Bob, died very suddenly in January 1994, I received condolences from people I hadn't heard from in years: letters, cards, flowers, calls, visits. I was overwhelmed with grief, yet upli...
  • How Much Do You Love Me?
      Jeremy slurped down the last of his milk from the bottom of his cereal bowl. He wiped his mouth on his sleeve and jumped down from the table. "Mommy, how much do you love me?" he asked.  "I lo...
  • Bright Heart
      Last year around Halloween, I was invited to participate in a carnival for Tuesday's Child, an organization that helps children with the AIDS virus. I was asked to attend because I'm on a televi...