I Do a Lot of Office Fishing by Richard Salmon Some years ago, I started to look at the stars through high-powered binoculars and began reading books written by astronomers for people like me. I became an entranced stargazer for a while. The men who...
Don't Step Out of Character BY VIRGINIA SAL! ON A PLANE flying from Chicago to New York, my seat companion was a young girl who gave me a friendly smile as I sat beside her, but whose young face showed great sadness. Hesitantly, she told me she was o...
Free Minds and Hearts at Work by Jackie Robinson At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. T...
One Girl Changed My Life by Rose Resnick My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dra...
How to Refill an Empty Life by Albert J Nesbitt One day about fifteen years ago I suddenly came face to face with myself and realized there was something quite empty about my life. My friends and associates perhaps didnt see it. By the generally acce...
I Call Things As I See Them by Ralph Pinelli An umpire has to make instant decisions. Ive learned to call things as I see them. This helps me make a quick reply to such an important and personal question as my belief. My philosophy of life is simple,...
A Shining Day Will Come by Saul K Padover A candid statement of faith becomes, for me, a concentrated spiritual autobiography. My fundamental beliefs are the products of three converging influences that have been silently at work within my personalit...
We Cant Just Play with sports I believe that the greatest frontier of our ignorance lies in the relationship of man to man. I do not discount in the marvelous development in the world of things, nor do I devaluate the contributions of those who made...
A Morning Prayer in a Little Church By Helen Hayes Once, years ago, I got into a dogfight. I was wheeling a baby carriage, my pet cocker spaniel trotting beside me. Without warning, three dogsan Afghan, a St. Bernard and a Dalmatianpounced on the coc...
The Art of Bouncing Back by Joyce Grenfell I think the center of my faith is an absolute certainty of good. Like everyone else, I get low and there are times when I feel as if I have my fins backwards and am swimming upstream in heavy boots. But even...
