日期：2010-07-14 I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree（无忧无虑的） kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched（缝纫，装订） the eyeball togeth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-07 These days, there are so many choices to labor through, from the most basic, such as paper or plastic at the grocery（食品杂货店） checkout counter, to the nearly suicide-inducing, such as the friends-and-family plan or unlimited texting. In these t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-07 Plants pursue a never-ending quest for nourishment（食物，营养品） of the liquid and solar variety. Clearly, the very essence of life. But what can our obsession（痴迷，困扰） with plants teach us about our own personal journeys? My aunts, mom and g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 As I sat perched（栖息） in the second-floor window of our brick schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. This was a day I'd looked forward to for weeks: Miss Pace's fourth-grade, end-of-the-year party. Miss... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries（杂货，食品） for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 Golden sunlight danced in the treetops, and children's laughter filled the park. The smell of popcorn played on（演奏，发生影响） the breeze, and life seemed good. It was one of the happiest Saturday mornings I had spent with my little daughter, Gig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-18 Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates（阐明，说明） the power that words have to change a life -- a power that lies right in the hands of those reading this article. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the other kids... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn't be sorry! I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. The clothin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 For years I wanted a flower garden. I'd spend hours thinking of different things I could plant that would look nice together. But then we had Matthew. And Marvin. And the twins, Alisa and Alan. And then Helen. Five children. I was too busy raising t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 It is the true test of how human we really are. How much we can accept in our fellow humans. And really how much we want to accept. If we accept too much does that make us strong. And if we don't accept enough does that make us weak. Or is it the ot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 There's a new student waiting in your room, my principal announced, hurrying past me on the stairs. Name's Mary. I need to talk to you about her. Stop in the office later. I nodded and glanced down（匆匆阅读） at the packs of pink, red and white pap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid（潮湿的，湿润的） summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 黑暗似乎具有能够遮断一切光明的魔力。但是人类对于光明的向往是永远也不可能被阻断的。镜子容易破碎，但是破碎的镜片依然能反射出完好的阳光。是光或者不是光也罢，重要的是要尽自己所能来反射光明，虽然微弱，也能驱走黑暗。 Dr.Papaderos, what is the meaning of l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-05 Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isnt something you buy now and then（偶尔，有时） or pull down from the cupboard, dust off（抹去灰尘） and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard. Abundance is a philosophy（哲学，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-26 No difference in the past, non-attachment the future, do not play on the now. Anju now, and happy to live the moment, which Buddhist（佛教徒） Feeling deep sentence, which fell heart, the mind immediately let me have far-reaching everywhere cool. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-26 After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. A little while ago I had started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife's idea. I know that you love her, she said one day, taking me by surprise. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-26 Step one: Plant yourself deep in a bed of faith, and pack it down solid and tight. Drench（浸润，湿透） daily with positive thinking, and keep saturated（饱和的） just right. Mulch（覆盖） often with forgivenss, for this will help you grow. Quickly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-12 Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. William Bennett Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignmentto draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. Most of the cl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-24 Looks like a brush fire（灌木丛火灾）, Kim Cooper thought as she spotted an orange glow ahead on Interstate 75. It was near dusk（黄昏） , and she and her husband, Steve, were trucking through northern Kentucky hauling（搬运，牵引） auto parts from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-24 If ever（假如，要是） the scene had been set, this was it. A week in Paris. He is strikingly（显著地，突出地） handsome with his classic Californian good looks and a smile that could melt butter, and I am probably at my physical peak, with wavy brow... 阅读全文>>