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  • Love Is a Two-way Street
      A father sat at his desk poring over his monthly bills when his young son rushed in and announced,  “Dad, because this is your birthday and you're 55 years old, I'm going to give you 55 kisses...
  • For Moms
      This is for all the mothers who DIDN'T win Mother of the Year last year, all the runners-up and all the wannabes, in- cluding the mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care.  This is for a...
  • A Moment of Joy
      A Moment of Joy  Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss.  What I did not realize was that it was also a ministry. Because...
  • Flower in The Desert
      这个美丽的故事流传在美洲印第安土著中已近200年了,一朵荒漠中的小花,不是为了自己的艳丽,而执着于点缀这个世界的一角……  There was a young flower in the desert where all was dry and sad looking……...
  • Happy Father's Day,Dad
      Dear Dad,  Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you...
  • The Symphony is a Way of Life
      The auditorium is full of people conversing in the audience. On the stage the performers are shuffling their music and tuning their instruments as they prepare for the performance. The conduct...
  • Flying
      Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was raised in an orphanage.  The little boy had always wished that he could fly like a bird. It was very difficult for him to understand why he co...
  • Love in Simple Words
      Whatever I am writing - is based on my personal experience with life. It's just like life has become a book or certification for me. Similar I found with Mr. M K Gandhi "The Father of Nation? I...
  • The Nails and the Fence
      There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.  The first day the boy had dr...
  • I Want a Girlfriend
      Whenever I pass by the lakeside in our campus, where the scenery is so beautiful, I always see several love birds sitting there, talking with great animation.  Compared with them, I seemed to be...
  • A Sky Angel
      In 1978, I became a flight attendant for a major airline. Earning my wings was the culmination of a childhood dream that I had set for myself after my first plane ride at the age of five. Like...
  • Follow Your Bliss
      ― A Letter to My Students  Boys and girls,First, and foremost, I am here to say “congratulations”。 Congratulations to all of you coming to UIBE, and second thank you for your coming to SCE t...
  • The Farmer's Donkey
      One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.  Finally, he decided t he animal was too old and the...
  • Grandpa's Table
      A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered.  The family ate together at...
  • The Mountain Story
      A son and his father were walking on the mountains.  Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”  To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the moun...
  • There Are No Vans
      I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was standing there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey and even some pans t...
  • Ronny's Book
      At first glance, Ronny looked like every other kid in the first-grade classroom where I volunteered as the Reading Mom. Wind-blown hair, scuffed shoes, a little bit of dirt behind his ears, some kind...
  • Writer's in Prison
      I was doing a guest writing workshop at Susanville State Prison near the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California. Most of the men doing time there are sentenced to prison because of drugs....
  • Coffee Shop Kindness
      My senior year of high school was an extremely hectic one, to say the least. If I wasn't studying and worrying about my grades, I was juggling multiple extracurricular activities or attempting t...
  • Colorful Shades of Gray
      Moths are very ugly creatures. At least that is what I always thought until a reliable source told me otherwise. When I was about five or six years old, my brother Joseph and I stayed overnight...
  • Mary Lou
      It was my first day as newcomer to Miss Hargrove's seventh grade. Past "newcomer" experiences had been difficult, so I was very anxious to fit in. After being introduced to the class, I bravely...
  • The Little Girl Who Dared To Wish
      As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she collided with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction.  "Watch it , squirt." The boy yelled...
  • Puppies For Sale
      A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read "Puppies For Sale." Signs like that have a way of attracting small children, and sure enough, a little boy appeared under the store owne...
  • Consider This
      After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, "can't act! Slightly Bald! Can dance a little!" Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his B...
  • The Giving Trees
      I was a single parent of four small children, working at a minimum-wage job. Money was always tight, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, alwa...