It was still dark when I was finishing up my oatmeal. The hot dry summer air of late July was coming through the window and I was contemplating the long day ahead. We were in the middle of one of the worst droughts in history. Don't know if any of you have ever drug a...
The story starts out where she, Beth, is sitting at an airport terminal, waiting to board a plane. She was sitting there with several other people who were also waiting, whom she did not know. As she waited, she pulled out her Bible and started reading.All of a sudden...
The story is told of an old gentleman who was very wealthy. As far as he knew, he had no living relative upon the face of the earth. He surmised that he had not long to live . . . .As winter came on, the rich man grew quite ill and, during the worst spell of blustery...
The first day of kindergarten, he hurried to the door Shrugging off his mother's hugs, he didn't need them anymore For he was all grown up now, too big for all that stuff Instead he waved a quick good-bye, hoping that would be enoughStill he couldn't help but look...
Graveyard shift, night shift, third shift -- they all meant the same thing to me--eight hours of no sleep. I walked up the hill to the hospital entrance, each leg feeling as if it was cast in concrete. Mulling over what a nursing instructor had told me at graduation,...
In the very early 1800's, a young boy about 14 years old named John lived in an orphanage in Old England along with several other children.Orphanages were dreaded. Orphan meant unwanted and unloved. The orphanage was administered by a master and his wife who were...
When I was a little boy, just about 10 or 11, we visited my great-aunt and great-uncle. In the yard beside their home stood a towering pecan tree. Every summer pecans would fall off the tree and sprout, producing a mini-forest of several dozen small saplings. On the...