There lived a poor woman who had been a widow for some years, and had an only child name Jack. Jack was a careless and extravagant boy. One day the poor woman found that they did n...

Webster defines advice as being, 'a recommendation with regard to a course of action.'   The expression, 'I need some advice' has to be one of the most horrifying statement...

Suppose a child comes home with a report card with five As and one B. Usually the first thing his parents will say is 'Why the B?' What do you think will go through the child’s mi...

Do you Yahoo? If you don’t, Yahoo is making it easier to check your email. Especially when you’re on the go.   “To learn more about Yahoo by phone, press zero.” It...

Looking for my book, that’s what you do when you write a book. I can’t find mine; all I can find are dirty novels, cookbooks and diet books. Year after year cook books and diet b...

There was a group called 'The Fisherman‘s Fellowship'. They were surrounded by streams and lakes full of hungry fish. They met regularly to discuss the call to fish, and the thril...

I opened my eyes. I was looking up at the ceiling. Why I was looking there, I don‘t know, but I kept looking anyway, and laughing. I kicked my legs and shuck my arms, but it broug...

The old monk often took the young monk to the hill outside the temple to recite the lection. One day the young monk said to the old monk,'How slowly the time goes!' The old monk sa...

We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren‘t old enough and we‘ll be more co...

    We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I d know better. I‘d really like for them to know about h...