There is a monastery in Portugal that is quite a tourist attraction. The monastery is perched high on a 3,000 foot cliff. Getting to the monastery is a terrifying ride…
I found a wallet in the shopping cart at Aldi today. It was worn leather. Inside: $400 cash. No credit cards. Just a driver’s license and a folded photo of…
I manage a 24-hour fitness center. Every morning at 5:30 AM, a high school teenager would scan his key fob. He never touched a single weight or treadmill. He just…
This morning, on my way to work, I pulled up behind a car with a handwritten note taped to the back window. It said, “Learning stick. Sorry for any delay.”…
I own a small-town flower shop. Two teenage boys walked in last Wednesday afternoon looking completely out of place. The older one, maybe sixteen, stepped up to the counter and…
Imagine sitting at seventy five, looking back on your life, and realizing you never ran into the ocean on a warm summer night because you worried about how your thighs…
A humiliating defeat had just shaken the White House, and John F. Kennedy turned to a man from the other side of American politics. On April 22, 1961, only days…
THE FIREWORKS BLAZE On this 4th of July, the fireworks blaze,Yet shadows of doubt obscure the haze.A nation divided, in struggle and fight,Each voice clamoring in the dead of night.…
One day a historian from the United States asked a former president of Argentina why South America with all of its tremendous natural resources of iron, copper, silver and gold….its…
