Are You Settling For Average?

There’s was a longtime handyman named Sam who was once offered a full-time job by a mill owner who was having problems with muskrats at the mill’s dam. The owner asked Sam to rid the mill of the pests and even provided a rifle for him to do the job. Sam was ecstatic...

Habits Die Very Hard

This is really surprising but it’s a fact that all ants were human-beings to begin with. They lived by tilling soil and raising crops just as farmers do even today. Dissatisfied with what they used to get through their labour, these farmers always had their eyes...

Are You Happy?

I never meant to be married three times. My one and only marriage was going to be a delight of witty banter and happily ever after. I’d been studying for this since I picked up my first Georgette Heyer romance, so I knew exactly what to expect. After the second...

Gold-Medal Winner

I spoke at a middle school in the spring of 1995. When the program was over, the principal asked me if I would pay a visit to a special student. An illness had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me, and the principal knew it would mean a...

Tools For Life

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes It was December when my father had to live the moment every dad dreads —...

Feathers In The Wind

One day, a woman repeated a bit of gossip about her  neighbor.  Within a few days, the entire community knew the story.  And it wasn’t long  before the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a...