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Working Christmas Day
For many of us, one Christmas stands out from all the others, the one when the meaning of the day shone clearest. It was an unusually quiet day in the emergency room on December 25. Quiet, that is, except for the nurses who were standing around the nurses' station grumbling about having to work Christmas Day... |
| 2006-12-25 |
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发生在圣诞节的一个感人故事
For many of us, one Christmas stands out from all the others, the one when the meaning of the day shone clearest. My own "truest" Christmas began on a rainy spring day in the bleakest year of my life... |
| 2006-12-21 |
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父亲的职责
A father's job is unique.If parents had job descriptions, mine would read: organize bills, playmates, laundry, meals, laundry, carpool, laundry, snacks, outings and shopping, and laundry...... |
| 2006-12-18 |
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生命的痕迹
My teammates on the United States Disabled Ski Team used to tease me about the size of my chest, joking that my greatest handicap wasn't my missing leg but my missing cleavage. Little did they know how true that would become. This past year, I found out that for the second time in my life I had cancer, this time in both breasts. I had bilateral mastectomies..... |
| 2006-12-15 |
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那本尘封的日记
Armed with two over-packed suitcases, we arrived at the airport just in time for my flight. "Well, here we are, the airport," my sister said with a sigh. As I watched her unload my luggage, I could see the sadness in her eyes. This was not easy on her either.... |
| 2006-12-12 |
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一封绝妙的情书
There once lived a lad who was deeply in love with a girl, but disliked by the girl's father, who didn't want to see any further development of their love. The lad was eager to write to the girl, yet he was quite sure that the father would read it first. So he wrote such a letter to the girl... |
| 2006-12-08 |
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给爱最重的礼物
"Can I see my baby?" the happy new mother asked.When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped... |
| 2006-12-04 |
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天使在你身边
Surrounding you are angels,
They are there to guide your path,
If weakness overcomes you,
They'll give you strength if you will ask. |
| 2006-11-30 |
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人生如一朵浮云
I've opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it slips on north. |
| 2006-11-27 |
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[感恩节]谁是你的守护天使
Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?" |
| 2006-11-23 |
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六种帮助孩子交朋友的方法
Friends become a child's chosen family. If his social life is going well, he gains confidence. If she has trouble connecting, it hurts and can make her feel sad and withdrawn and lonely. |
| 2006-11-20 |
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别错过机会
Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. |
| 2006-11-16 |
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翅膀断了 心飞翔
He lost his arms in an accident that claimed his father's life-who was the main source of support for the family. Since then, he has had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. For the sake of taking care of him, his younger brother became his shadow, never leaving him alone for years. Except for writing with his toes, he was completely unable to do anything in his life. |
| 2006-11-13 |
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Fireworks（读者自创诗歌）
Beautiful angel from the dark, dark sky,
I don't want to ask Why, Why?
Why so far and so high?
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| 2006-11-09 |
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钉子与篱笆
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. |
| 2006-11-06 |
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