A Jobless man applied for the position of ‘office boy‘ at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.  'You are employed' he sa...

One day, an acquaintance met Socrates and said, 'Do you know what I just heard about your friend?'   'Hold on a minute,' Socrates replied. 'Before you talk to me about my frie...

When Mary Van Beke was growing up in the 1920s, she lived in Newark, N.J., and was the oldest of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Europe. And as Mary tells her son, ...

Some years ago, a good family moved into the third floor apartment of the tenement where we lived in the Bronx. David was the son and he was going to medical school. He was also an...

  Pirates Treasure 'Ten steps from the porch（门廊） and twenty steps from the rose bushes,' growled Bluebeard in Jimmy‘s dream one night. 'There be treasure there! .' So th...

  A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her, She did not know she was going to make it and want to give up. She was tired of fight...

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...