In memory of Erma Bombeck who lost her fight with cancer (written after she found out she was dying): “I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day. “I would have burned the pink candle sculpted […]

Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country. When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for such a long […]

A businessman was highly critical of his competitors’ storefront windows. “Why, they are the dirtiest windows in town,” he claimed. Fellow business people grew tired of the man’s continual criticism and nitpicking comments about the windows. One day over coffee, the businessman carried the subject just too far. Before leaving, a fellow storeowner suggested the […]

You have heard of the cup that overflowed. This is a story of a bucket that is like the cup, only larger, it is an invisible bucket. Everyone has one. It determines how we feel about ourselves, about others, and how we get along with people. Have you ever experienced a series of very favorable […]

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide. “He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the […]

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family. On their return from their trip, […]

Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying. Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is. Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, […]

With Thanksgiving on the horizon I know someone…I’ll call her Alice…who is thankful to be alive. You see, last Monday Alice was driving and was in a car accident. A drunk driver hit her. The impaired driver was arrested. (He was also arrested the night before, having caused a similar accident while under the influence […]

A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: “This,” he said, “Isn’t any ordinary package.” He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. “She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She […]

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