A Dream Lives On
cott Young liked to dream big. Although he came from humble beginnings, through hard work he turned a one-man enterprise into the …
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A Welcomed Benefit
Jim and Judy were high school sweethearts, and while a tour of duty in Vietnam separated them and sent them on different paths, it…
Face Difficulties Positively
This parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmers well. The farmer heard the mule praying or …
Life Changes for Everybody After You’re Gone
The cosmetology classes Yasmine Moss was taking at her Bladensburg, Md., high school were supposed to be a way to learn a trade sh…
Tyler Leifeste: Overcoming Life’s Challenges
In the span of a few short years, the entire landscape of Tyler Leifestes life changed. When he was just 12, his father, Sam, died…
A SIMPLE STORY TO ILLUSTRATE HOW TO FACE CHALLENGES POSITIVELY
One of the best pleasures in life is doing what people say you cannot do. How do you face challenges positively? Do you feel it m…
The Clearing
I stood completely still in the moonlight behind silver foliage, staring at the clearing. There was a rustling and a scraping and …
The man took a slow drag on his cigarette.
The ember winked life-red against the warm evening backdrop. He exhaled, thinking about what he had just heard, what she had just …
I tried to explain, but I couldn’t.
You looked at me. A train careered through the cerebral station. The words, who until that point had been waiting patiently in lin…
I stand alone in a forest of people
When a tree falls nobody hears it, for the foliage is in Connecticut, or Central Park, and I wake up in Brooklyn. I take the train…
