Make our lives as unique and meaningful as we wish Desperately lonely at only 17 years old may not be normal, but so many things had happened in my life to make me feel like...

     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...

  Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said,...

  There are many stories on how this festival was created. One other story is about a maid. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite advisor of the emperor. One winter d...

  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...

  Fox hummed as he poured lemonade into molds for ice pops. He had invited Bear for lunch. “Bear will be surprised,” Fox said to himself. “He doesn’t know what a great coo...

One morning a small boy squatted motionless on the grass in the garden for a long time. His mother felt so odd that she walked close to see what had happened. The boy, in earnest, ...

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic Ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far aw...

A little boy asked his mother: “Why are you crying?” “Because I am a woman.” She told him. “I don’t understand” he said. His mum just hugged him and said: “And you never wi...

  A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him his box of cars and trucks , his plastic pail , and a shiny , red plastic shovel. In ...