Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering o
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there,they serve some sort of purpose,to teach you a lesson or help fi
A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Profes
Born in England,Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Leslie Stephen,a well-known scholar. She was educated primarily at home and attributed her love of reading
She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old,this beautiful brown haired,freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring ou
My father,Winston Churchill,began his love affair with painting in his 40s,amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915,he was deep
Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare;there are weddings on mountain-tops with gue
Judy Syfers,a wife,and mother of two children,argues in this essay for a wife of her own. Although her argument might seem strange,her position will become
I heard this story when I was in Vietnam,and it was told to me as fact. I have no way of knowing for sure that it is true,but I do know that stranger things h
One day after work,I was driving my two sons home from school when Christopher asked if we could stop by a store so he could by a birthday gift to take to the
Moths are very ugly creatures. At least that is what I always thought until a reliable source told me otherwise. When I was about five or six years old,my brot
Once upon a time,there was an island where all the feelings lived:Happiness,Sadness,Knowledge,and all of the others,including Love. One day it was announc
After the 32 teams have been decided all the managers and players pray for a good draw in the World Cup.And every tournament their is disappointment and satisfa
We now look at the two men who have a great amount of influence on a game without even kicking the ball - coaches and referees. These two individuals can turn a
It was June 15,and in two days I would be turning thirty. I was insecure about entering a new decade of my life and feared that my best years were now behind m
The 2 teams - Australia and the USA played their opening games on the same day. One team came away happy and the other not so happy. Having moved to Australia m
Don‘t judge a life by one difficult season.
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent th
Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut,not upon the hole?Suddenly these clichés are scientific
Prior to the invention of the radio and the phonograph,the only means whereby music could be brought to a big audience was actually having it performed live. B
A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin w
The famer peered through his square,eyeglasses and patiently counted the seeds. There are 8925 seeds to a pound of barley, he concluded. Counting red clover s
The red distress flare shot up from the sinking ship, the Smith Voyager. Every man aboard our Coast Guard cutter, the Rockaway, knew that time had run out. W
Care your dream
My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exis
You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) tha
It happened in one of those picturesque Danish taverns that cater to tourists and where English is spoken. I was with my father on a business-and-pleasure trip,
They weave through the southwest desert like a snake stalking its prey. These prehistoric geologic wonders known as slot canyons have been craved by centuries o
The clock just struck two,the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket,the watchman forgets the hour in slumber,the laborious and the happy are at rest,