”I teach 8th grade. This week, my homeroom took an angel off the “giving tree” – a little girl. All she asked for was a bike & clothes. My kids all agreed to bring in $2 each & we’d buy her clothes bc we couldn’t afford to get the bike. Then today, very quietly one […]

In 1916, a bold proposal was introduced that would have dramatically changed how the United States entered wars. The amendment suggested that any act of war must first be approved by a national referendum. This meant that instead of Congress alone deciding to declare war, the American public would have the final say—an unprecedented move […]

This is my daughter. She is only twelve, but today she gave me one of those proud parent moments that I will never forget. We are on vacation and since the day we got here she has had a five dollar bill burning a hole in her pocket. Every time we passed a shop she […]

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“He came in and gently said, ‘How are you?’ I clung to him and admitted, ‘I’m so scared.’ The truth was, I wasn’t prepared—and neither were my babies.” (Link Below)

“While I’m sitting here at the Loves in Newton NC waiting on my load to cut, I saw a red SUV pull up beside me. As a truck driver my initial thought was this guy is going to come and give me the run around on some excuse about how he has no job and […]

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and […]