手机版
  • Spring's Here-Finally
      The waterfall behind our house at the lower end of Lake Edenwold is a thundering cascade of spring runoff from the melting snows of winter. It's been a three-week drum roll leading up to today...
  • 非得喜欢自己吗?
      I Need To Like Myself?  Yes! People who don't like themselves are a pain in the neck!  Usually, people with a poor self-image use one of two irritating strategies. They either:  a) criti...
  • 美不胜收的哥本哈根
      Spotlight on Copenhagen  Are you too old for fairy tales? If you think so, Copenhagen is sure to change your mind.  See the city first from the water. In the harbor sits Denmark's best-kno...
  • 贝多芬经典情书
      Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of history"s most famous and mysterious composers died at the age of 57 with one great secret. Upon his death, a love letter was found among his possessio...
  • Detour to Romance
      Located in the checkroom in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs.  Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passeng...
  • Think it over好好想想
      Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;  今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路,但是我们的性情却更为急躁,眼光也更加狭隘;  ...
  • Francs
      法郎  印着伏尔泰头像的一张法郎;  有关金钱的法国小说;  发生在公园里的一场好戏……  Francs have a rich and disreputable past. I fell permanently under their spell long ago in Paris. Lovely...
  • The Elegant Heart Towards Life
      As the brief introduction to this blog says, life could be poor and life could be lonely, but what we could never lose is the elegant heart towards life.  Everyone is busy these days. They a...
  • The Joys of Reading
      When my tenth birthday was coming up, I was happy imaging what kind of present my father would give me. To my surprise, Father gave me a set of books, which I was very glad to accept. He saw w...
  • 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. “Don't...
  • The Many Faces of Love
      "Why are you crying?" he asked his Mom.  "Because I'm a woman." she told him.  "I don't understand," he said.  His Mom just hugged him and said,  "And you never will" ……  Later the...
  • Five Balls Of Life
      This was written by the CEO of Coca-Cola Brian G. Dyson.It was used as Georgia Tech's Commencement Address:  Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You...
  • A Promise of Spring
      Early in the spring, about a month before my grandpa's stroke, I began walking for an hour every afternoon. Some days I would walk four blocks south to see Grandma and Grandpa. At eighty-six,...
  • A Sandpiper To Bring You Joy
      She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me. She was buildi...
  • On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
      No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother's and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as o...
  • Snow Season
      The early snows fall soft and white and seem to heal the landscape. There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads. The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our har...
  • An Afternoon in the Park
      There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lives, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and six packs of root beer and he started his journey...
  • A Father, a Son and and Answer
      文/Bob Greene 译/何朝阳  Passing through the Atlanta airport one morning, I caught one of those trains that take travelers from the main terminal to their boarding gates. Free, sterile and i...
  • 吸收挫折
      没有人能有足够的情感和精力,既抗拒不可避免的事实,又创造一种新的生活。你只能在这两个中间选择一样,你可以在那不可避免的暴风雨中弯下身子,也可以因抗拒他们而被摧折。  我在密苏里州自己的农场上就看过这样...
  • Someone Else's Life
      Lauralee had a headache, I bet you know the feeling,
      Bangin' your head all day long against the glass ceiling,
      Lauralee made her mind up, she had enough,
      She jumped the fence right...
  • Today
      There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension.  One of these days is Yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its fault...
  • Hidden Gems
      A man was exploring some caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled up some clay and left them out in...
  • Returning Home Again
      They say you can never go home again.  Well, you can. Only you might find yourself staying at a Trave Lodge, driving a rented Ford Contour and staking out your childhood home like some noir...
  • 回家
      人们都说你是再也回不了你的家了。  其实你是可以的。这样的话,你会发现自己将会住进寒酸的汽车旅馆里面,开着租来的廉价福特康拓车,在你童年的家门口久久地徘徊,就像黑色电影里的私家侦探一样,你总想窥探那些占...
  • 生命的机遇
    A Chance of a lifetime 生命的机遇  "This is a chance of a life time," I declared to my friend Stacy as I locked the door of my office and left the restaurant I managed. "It's every twenty-seven-y...