If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn't be sorry! I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. Th...
We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid（潮湿的，湿润的） summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with n...
There's a new student waiting in your room, my principal announced, hurrying past me on the stairs. Name's Mary. I need to talk to you about her. Stop in the office later. I nodded and glanced down（匆匆阅读） at the packs of pink, red and whit...
Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isnt something you buy now and then（偶尔，有时） or pull down from the cupboard, dust off（抹去灰尘） and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard. Abundance is a philos...
No difference in the past, non-attachment the future, do not play on the now. Anju now, and happy to live the moment, which Buddhist（佛教徒） Feeling deep sentence, which fell heart, the mind immediately let me have far-reaching everywhere cool...
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. William Bennett Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignmentto draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. Most of the cla...
If ever（假如，要是） the scene had been set, this was it. A week in Paris. He is strikingly（显著地，突出地） handsome with his classic Californian good looks and a smile that could melt butter, and I am probably at my physical peak,...
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling（玩杂耍） some five balls in the air. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends, Spirit. And you re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you...
The grey Great Wall winds in（缠绕） mountains and grey Siheyuan courtyards lie in hutongs. The grey is the tone of traditional architectures（建筑学，建筑物） in Beijing. The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was enlist...
The best thing about bad dates is that we walk away with a great story, and little doubt that the perpetrator（作恶之人） is not the person for us. I was thinking about some of the common errors made on first dates. I came up with 10 common mistakes...
