HTML clipboard The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. "There are 5 things you need to know," he told the pencil, "Before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil...
In their book The Big Book of Jewish Humor (HarperCollins, 1981), William Novak and Moshe Waldoks tell of a woman from Brooklyn, New York, who, on her 80th birthday, decided to prepare her last will and testament. She went to her rabbi to make two final...
John Todd was born in Rutledge, Vermont, into a family of several children. They later moved to the village of Killingsworth back in the early 1800s. And there, at a very young age, both John's parents died.The relatives wondered what they would do with so many...
"No burden is he to bear, we'll get there. For I know he will not encumber me, because he ain't heavy--he's my brother"~ Author unknown. If anyone has a proprietary interest in this story please authenticate and I will be happy to credit, or remove, as the...
Late one December night on the cancer ward the halls were quiet and solemn, the patients were asleep and most of the visitors were gone. The nurses were gathered about the nurse's station preparing for shift change. Sarah, one of the nurses, was especially tired,...
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered...
President Abraham Lincoln often visited hospitals to talk with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Once, doctors pointed out a young soldier who was near death and Lincoln went over to his bedside. "Is there anything I can do for you?" Asked the President.The...