If it was going to easy, it never would have started with something called labor! Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. To be in your childrens memories tomorrow, you have to...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of People's Republic of China. In this unusual year, the number of tragic, how many have touched, how many dreams, how much glory there is, bearing in mind the hearts of the people in China, written into the history...
The Story Of The Farmer And His Donkey One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the framer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up any...
A moving story--about FAMILY A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year oldson waiting for him at the door. SON: Daddy, may I ask you a question? DAD: Yeah sure, what is it? replied the man. SON: Daddy, how much do you ma...
Artist:Celine Dion Albums: All The Way - A Decade of Song Phil Spector, the genius producer behind such classic '60s hits as You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Be My Baby, devised a production strategy called Wall of Sound in which all the instrumen...
I Never Write Right When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. Half the students sneered, the rest nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. Dont be silly, only geniuses can become write...
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped felt hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the san...
How do I love thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to...
Happiness Equates with Fun? I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still equate happiness wit...
North country scene: A hundred leagues locked in ice, A thousand leagues of whirling snow. Both sides of the Great Wall One single white immensity. The Yellow River's swift current Is stilled from end to end. The mountains dance like silver snakes An...
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is to...
The Five Boons of Life In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket,and said:Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others,And be wary,choose wisely!For only one of them is valuable. The gifts were five :Fame, Love ,Riches,Pleasure,Death.The...
The Two Roads 两条路It was New Year's Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. The days of his youth appeared like dre...
Pack up your loved ones 带上至亲至爱 For my friend, Vikki, though, what to pack isn't as important as whom to pack. She takes her family and friends everywhere. Vikki took her mother skiing in Mammoth last November and she took my mother-in-law...
Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. We're taking a survey,she says, half-joking. Do you think I should have a baby? It will change your life, I...
