50 people died last Thursday when a plane crashed into a home near Buffalo, New York, USA. And among the compelling branches to this story is one about a 49-year-old man named David, whose connecting flight (because of a bad weather delay from New Orleans) did not arrive in time for him to be aboard […]

Australia’s Cape York Peninsula Maybe you’ve heard about the Great Barrier Reef, stretching some 1,800 miles from New Guinea to Australia. Tour guides regularly take visitors to view the reef. On one tour, a traveler asked the guide an interesting question: “I noticed that the lagoon side of the reef looks pale and lifeless, while […]

“The night before last my son came home…he had nearly been killed after a snowmobiling avalanche incident. He had been with some friends enjoying B.C.’s spectacular mountain scenery when the backcountry snowpack broke, burying him alive. Miraculously, his friend dug him out—they were well prepared for the risk, wearing avalanche beacons. “After he was rescued […]

Here is a story that has varying versions for the beginning as people have adapted it to themselves (Thanks for passing this version on to me Ken): I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door […]

“When you are young, 60, 70 and certainly 80 years seem like an eternity. But after you have lived it, you realize it is but a moment.” ~Elizabeth Melanie Hack Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend Read an excerpt now TV Shows and Clips about the Death of Cindy James

Many years ago three soldiers, hungry and weary of battle, came upon a small village. The villagers, suffering a meager harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid what little they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their hands and bemoaning the lack of anything to eat. The […]

I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and splutter and die – I barely managed to coast, cursing, into a gas station, glad only that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to […]

It was very, very cold. It snowed and it grew dark. It was the last evening of the year, New Year’s Eve. In the cold and dark a poor little girl, with bare head and bare feet, was walking through the streets. When she left her own house she certainly had had slippers on, but […]

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and […]

Christmas is for love. It is for joy, for giving and sharing, for laughter, for reuniting with family and friends, for tinsel and brightly decorated packages. But mostly, Christmas is for love. I had not believed this until a small elf-like student with wide-eyed innocent eyes and soft rosy cheeks gave me a wondrous gift […]