A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked...

It’s wonderful to be back in my boyhood hometown again to visit with my now elderly mother. It seems like centuries ago when I was growing up here. Back then, this small town was ...

THE Chinese, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed in 1888, are 'an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people, and dangerous to our ...

A squirrel, merrily leaping on the branches of an oak tree, accidentally missed its hold and fell upon a lion who lay at the trunk, basking in the shade. His Majesty awoke in anger...

“Do you know the time?”   Time is a very complex thing. We’re surrounded by it, yet all too often we feel like we don’t have enough of it. Sometimes, we take it for grante...

People who sleep fewer than six hours a night are more likely to die early, researchers have found in a study they claim provides ‘unequivocal evidence‘ of a link between sleep d...

Grandmother didn‘t just like her coffee, and it wouldn‘t really do her justice to say she loved her coffee. Grandmother was to coffee what a sommelier is to wine. She knew the in...

  He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very nea...

This past April while visiting my parents on the farm I‘d grown up on, I wandered outside to drink in the feel of 'home', a comfort I really needed right then. I was used to sunny...

     AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released fromhis present service and provided...